BZ-8.1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	]???????
Original script:	]
Object:	BZ-8 situla (bronze) (Inscriptions: BZ-8.1, BZ-8.2)
Position:	rim
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Number of characters:	7
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	damaged, incomplete
Date of inscription:	beginning of the 4th century BC [from object]
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 194 (a) LIR BZ-10 MLR 9 (B) TM 218530
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 180

Commentary

First published in Wieser 1891: 321 f.

Picture in Wieser 1891: 321 (drawing), MLR (photo).

Embossed with a broad chisel on the rim of the situla. Wieser, after consulting Carl Pauli, read (dextroverse) kicicii or ticicii, regarding the small stroke toward the right as a failed attempt. Whatmough suggested a separator. Most probably non-script or pseudo-script; possibly a manufacturer's mark (compare BZ-7)?.

Further references: Campi 1901: 6, Battisti 1936b: 597, Battisti 1944: 226.

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.
Battisti 1944	Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236.
Campi 1901	Luigi Campi, "Iscrizione Funeraria Etrusca Rinvenuto in Tavon nella Naunia", Archivio Trentino XVI (1901), 3–12.
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)