IT-8

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Inscription
Transliteration:	piθan[
Original script:	]
Variant Reading:	riθan[ ]
Object:	IT-8 potsherd (pottery)
Position:	outside
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	11 cm <br /> – 1.6 cm
Number of letters:	5
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised before firing
Current condition:	incomplete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène A [from object]
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	none

Images

Object IT-8 potsherd with inscription IT-8.

Inscription IT-8 - left part.

Inscription IT-8 - right part.

Object IT-8 potsherd with inscription IT-8.

Commentary

Unpublished. Autopsied by TIR in July 2014.

Picture in Tschurtschenthaler & Wein 1998: 249, Abb. 24.

Length of the remaining inscription 3.8 cm, starting from the lower part of the handle, running upwards. It it unlikely that the handle broke along a hasta, as it would have been very close to the preceding , and the edge is scraggy. The letters are legible without ambiguity, apart from the first one: The angle, rounded, does not quite reach either the bottom of the line or the hasta, although the letters generally are very tidily scratched. Southern (venetoid) closed or near closed Pi may be expected in the Inn valley. Compare possibly the same name in MA-1 and MA-2 () and in SR-5 (). Compare also ST-2 with a first letter , also in a name.