EN-1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	aχ[?
Original script:	]
Object:	EN-1 potsherd (pottery)
Position:	outside
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Number of letters:	3
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised before firing
Current condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène A, La Tène B [from object]
Date of inscription:	first half of the 5th–middle of the 3rd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context, typology [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 195, 217

Images

Object EN-1 potsherd with inscription EN-1.

Inscription EN-1.

Object EN-1 potsherd with inscription EN-1.

Inscription EN-1.

Commentary

First published in Risch 1984: 29.

Further references: Risch 1989: 1580.

Picture in Risch 1984: 28, Abb 9 (drawing = Risch 1989: 1586, fig. 7 = Schumacher 2004: Taf. 5,4).

Risch 1989 argues that the potsherd, together with three more typically Raetic objects with scratchings found at Ardez, belongs in Frizens-Sanzeno-context and should therefore be considered part of the Raetic corpus. Pellegrini 1985: 98, n. 14 remains sceptical. As, archaeologically, Ardez lies in an area of interference between a number of cultural horizons considered Raetic and/or Celtic, and the two identifiable letters are not decisive palaeographically, an attribution to Raetic is not unassailable. Generally speaking, properly inscribed pottery (as opposed to quasi-script scratchings on Sanzeno bowls and the like) is more typical for the area west of the river Etsch/Adige, usually assigned to the Lepontic (Celtic) corpus. The northernmost Lepontic finds from Graubünden, however, are two gravestones (GR·1 and GR·2).

Bibliography

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)