SR-13

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Inscription
Transliteration:	]ṇas
Original script:	]
Variant Reading:	sa?[
Object:	SR-13 antler (antler)
Position:	front
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Letter height:	1.5 cm
Number of letters:	3
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Date of inscription:	3rd century [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	IR 95 LIR SE-11
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 159

Images

Object SR-13 antler with inscription SR-13.

Commentary

First published in Pellegrini & Sebesta 1965: 16 (no. 13). Autopsied by TIR in November 2014.

Images in Pellegrini & Sebesta 1965: 16 (drawing), IR (photo tav. LV c = LIR and drawing = LIR).

Length of the remains 1.5 cm. The letters are damaged by a horizontal crack. and are unambiguous; the left line of the chevron coincides with the breaking edge. Pellegrini's reading ]nas with the hasta of gone is the only option which accounts for the smallish angle; a reading can be excluded in Southern Raetic context. For an inscription ending in -nas, cp. SR-3.1. However, as Mancini pointed out, a sinistroverse reading would be more likely regarding both the orientation of the letters and the fact that none of the other inscriptions from Montesei di Serso is dextroverse.

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)