AS-19.2

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Inscription
Transliteration:	śv
Original script:
Object:	AS-19 beaker (pottery) (Inscriptions: AS-19.1, AS-19.2)
Position:	bottom
Orientation:	180°
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Letter height:	1.7 cm
Number of characters:	2
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	complete, damaged
Date of inscription:	end of the 4th-3rd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	MLR 108

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 2011b: 202 (no. 5). Autopsied by TIR on 14^th October 2015.

Image in Marinetti 2011b: 203 (5) (drawing = MLR).

Inscribed on the narrow bottom of the beaker, the tops of the characters pointing towards the foot. The characters take up the entire breadth of the bottom; length about 2.5 cm. AS-19.1 starts at about 1 cm after this sequence. Both characters are damaged by breaks. The object is broken more or less along the left hasta of , whose bars cross, but both reach the bottom of the line. Another vertical break damages the tips of the bars of . The status of as a Raetic letter is dubious; in any case, the sequence is most probably a local workman's mark. Cp. AS-20, AS-21, AS-22 and AS-23. The mark usually appears more than once on the same object, but in this case the rest of the bottom is missing.

Bibliography

Marinetti 2011b	Anna Marinetti, "Le iscrizioni retiche dal Bostel di Rotzo (Vicenza)", Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV) XXVII (2011), 201–203.