SZ-19

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Inscription
Transliteration:	k[???????
Original script:	]
Object:	SZ-19 simpulum ()
Position:	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:	unknown
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Letter height:	0.8 cm
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	chased"chased" is not in the list (painted, cast, unknown, engraved, incised, incised before firing, embossed, impressed) of allowed values for the "craftsmanship" property.
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 200 LIR SA-30
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 136 Mancini 2010: 97

Images

Object SZ-19 handle with inscription SZ-19.

Inscription SZ-19.

Commentary

First published in PID.
Further references: NRIE 96, Battisti 1944: 230.
Hardly readable due to corrosion. Possibly ] kaþa[ (sinistroverse); at what is probably the end of the inscription, an asterisk. Possibly traces of punctuation (). Whatmough, who saw the inscription in 1923, read kuθ[ (dextroverse). The identification of SZ-19 simpulum with the object autopsied by the project staff is, however, not absolutely certain.

Bibliography

Battisti 1944	Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236.
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)