SZ-25

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Inscription
Transliteration:	$
Original script:
Object:	SZ-25 gouge (iron)
Position:	centre"centre" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Script:	none
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	none
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 205 LIR SA-55, SA-80 TM 218395
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 138

Commentary

First published in PID. Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.

Pictures in PID (drawing) and LIR (drawing, sub SA-55).

Heavily corroded, but the symbol "a caporale" can be made out reasonably well. Read aś (dextroverse, with both signs askew) by Whatmough. Mancini included the inscription (and object) twice, SA-80 being inherited from PID, while SA-55 was seen by him but not identified with the inscription on Whatmough's "chisel". Independently of Whatmough, Mancini read θa (dextroverse), disregarding traces of corrosion to the right of more evident (~ ), but including fractures to the left to represent .

Further references: NRIE 101, Battisti 1944: 232.

Bibliography

Battisti 1944	Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236.
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)