NO-1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	?]ukinua[
Original script:	[?
Object:	NO-1 fragment (bronze)
Position:	rim
Script:	North Italic script (Sanzeno alphabet)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	0.60.6 cm <br /> 0.6 cm <br />
Number of letters:	7
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	fragmentary
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 209 LIR CL-1 MLR 33
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 150

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Object NO-1 fragment with inscription NO-1.

Inscription NO-1.

Commentary

First published in Campi 1886–87: 145 f.. Autopsied by TIR in October 2014.

Image in LIR (drawing).

Length of the remains 4.8 cm. Inscribed on top of the rolled-up rim of a vessel, upright when looked at from the outside. Well legible despite the disjointed lines due to the curvature of the writing surface. ]ukinua[ is unambiguous, although has its lower bar cross the hasta, leading Mayr 1957c (p. 126) to read dextroverse Sigma. The first letter, damaged by the break, was read by Campi. Of the line , only the lower half is preserved, with a crack opening into the breaking edge. The other line clearly ends before it touches the first one. is therefore unlikely, as the writer did not bother to make two strokes for a single line in any of the other letters. A reading , as already suggested by Mayr 1957c (p. 126), is more probable, but though the breaking edge is very straight, no traces of a hasta coinciding with it can be verified. The breaking edge after is equally straight and smooth, making a continuation of the inscription possible. If we are concerned with a patronymic in -nu, both -a (genitive) and -ale (pertinentive) are plausible suffixes.

Further references: Pauli 1888: 149 f., NRIE 109, Battisti 1936b: 598, Franz 1958b: 40 (fn 2), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 221.

Bibliography

Battisti 1936b	Carlo Battisti, "Rassegna critica degli studi linguistici sull'Alto Adige nel quinquennio 1931-36", Archivio per l'Alto Adige 31/2 (1936), 561–611.
Campi 1886–87	Luigi Campi, "I Campi Neri presso Cles nell'Anaunia", Annuario della Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini 13 (1886–87 [1888]), 133–158.
Franz 1958b	Leonhard Franz, "Eine Inschrift aus Cles", Der Schlern 32 (1958), 39–40.
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)
Mayr 1957c	Karl M. Mayr, "Hirschhornvotiv mit rätischer Inschrift aus Sanzeno am Nonsberg", Der Schlern 31 (1957), 426–427.