SZ-42

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Inscription
Transliteration:	ave ?
Original script:
Object:	SZ-42 handle (bronze)
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:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	IR 41 LIR SA-56
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 141

Commentary

First published in IR. Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.

Pictures in Nothdurfter 1979: 101 (785) (drawing) and IR (photo tav. XLV, fig. a and drawing = LIR).

Inscription lenght 3 cm. No white inlay in the third bar of . After a rivet, then, next to the heavily corroded end, possibly traces of another sign (?), but maybe merely traces of the tool used to drive in the rivet. 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)