SZ-21

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Inscription
Transliteration:	??????]aṿ.ị.
Original script:	[
Object:	SZ-20 statuette ()
Position:	upper area"upper area" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Number of letters:	3
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	punch-marked"punch-marked" is not in the list (painted, cast, unknown, engraved, incised, incised before firing, embossed, impressed) of allowed values for the "craftsmanship" property.
Current condition:	unknown, restored
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 202 LIR SA-16
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 137

Commentary

First published in PID.
Further references: NRIE 98, Battisti 1944: 230.
Picture in LIR (drawing).
Along the edge on the animal's back, apparently a mere succession of short strokes and angles: Whatmough, from Conway's drawing, read pnippipiav.i. However, the strokes look suspiciously like the upper part of an inscription. Since the object is obviously undamaged, the interpretation of the inscription hinges on the question of whether the object might be a tessera, with the lower parts of the signs written on the other half. Mark the possible, appropriately word-final occurrence of Venetic .
Due to a misunderstanding by Whatmough, inscriptions SZ-20 and SZ-21 were thought to be inscribed on two different, though similar, objects.

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)