SZ-25

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Inscription
Transliteration:	?]ạ[?
Original script:	?][?
Variant Reading:	§
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:	unknown
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 205 LIR SA-55, SA-80
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 138

Commentary

First published in PID.
Further references: NRIE 101, Battisti 1944: 232.
Pictures in PID (drawing) and LIR (drawing, sub SA-55).
Traces of what Whatmough read aś (dextroverse) (with both signs askew, see his drawing) can still be found, even though the object is heavily corroded. Mancini included the inscription (and object) twice, SA-80 going back to 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 the faint traces to the right of more evident , but including indentations to the left to represent .

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)