SZ-38

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Inscription
Transliteration:	sχsi
Original script:
Object:	SZ-38 knife (iron)
Position:	unknown
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Number of letters:	4
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	unknown
Current condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	Late Iron Age [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–1st centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	IR 37 LIR SA-29
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 141

Commentary

First published in Pellegrini 1951: 316 (no. 18). Non vidi.

Image in Pellegrini 1951: 313 (no. 18) (drawing).

Pellegrini only gives a drawing of the letter forms and points out the inscription's similarity to SZ-17. No-one appears to have examined it since, there is no information on craftsmanship or the exact position of the writing on the object. The inscription resembles SZ-17 not only in the sequence of letters, but also in the orientation of Sigma in writing direction (a reading isχs is generally excluded, probably on phonetic grounds). If Pellegrini's drawing is accurate, the shape of Chi is slightly different.

Further references: Vetter 1954: 72 f. (no. 18).

Bibliography

IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
LIR	Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes)