SZ-42

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Inscription
Transliteration:	ave?
Original script:
Object:	SZ-42 key ()
Position:	handle, side"side" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	1.61.6 cm <br /> – 1.9 cm
Number of letters:	3
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	incomplete, restored
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	unknown
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	IR 41 LIR SA-56
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 141

Commentary

First published in IR.
Pictures in Nothdurfter 1979: 101 (785) (drawing), IR (photo tav. XLV, fig. a and drawing) = LIR (photo and drawing).
No white inlay in the third oblique stroke of . After a rivet, then, next to the heavily corroded end, traces of another sign (possibly ). On the broad end on the upper side, a multibranched and lopsided asterisk.

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)