BZ-4

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Inscription
Transliteration:	pevaśniχesiupikuθiuθisaχvilipiperisnaθi
Original script:
Object:	BZ-4 fragment (bronze)
Position:	inside, rim
Script:	North Italic script (Alphabet of Sanzeno"Alphabet of Sanzeno" is not in the list (Venetic alphabet, Magrè alphabet, Sanzeno alphabet, Lugano alphabet, ?) of allowed values for the "alphabet" property.)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	1.2 cm – 1.8 cm
Number of letters:	39
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete, damaged, restored
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	PID 192 LIR BZ-4
Sources:	Schumacher 1992: 179

Images

Inscription BZ-4.	Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.	Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.	Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.	Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.
Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.

Commentary

Further references: AIF I 33.br>Picture in AIF I: Taf. II (33) (drawing).
See BZ-4 copy for a cast of BZ-4 fragment.
Neatly executed apart from the first and second resp. , whose lowest strokes cross the line (no white inlay). The first is orientated against the writing direction. The fragment is broken along the first stroke of in aχvili and has a crack along the last .

Bibliography

AIF I	Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885.
Battisti 1944	Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236.
CII	Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum, Torino: 1867. (2 volumes)
Conestabile 1863	Giancarlo Conestabile, Second spicilegium de quelques monuments écrits ou épigraphes des Étrusques. Musées de Londres, de Berlin, de Manheim, de La Haye, de Paris, de Pérouse (Italie), Paris: Librairie Académique - Didier et Cie 1863.
Corssen 1874	Wilhelm Paul Corssen, Ueber die Sprache der Etrusker. Band 1, Leipzig: 1874.
Deecke 1886	Wilhelm Deecke, "–", review of: Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 2 (1886), 49–70.
Kretschmer 1943	Paul Kretschmer, "Die vorgriechischen Sprach- und Volksschichten (Fortsetzung)", Glotta 30 (1943), 84–218.
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)
Marstrander 1927	Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander, "Remarques sur les inscriptions des casques en bronze de Negau et de Watsch", Avhandlinger utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo. Hist.-filos. klasse 1926/2 (1927), 1–26.