IT-4

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Inscription
Transliteration:	riθiẹ[???]ịχ[???]ịle
Original script:	[][]
Variant Reading:	riθiẹ[???]ịχ[???]ịpe
Object:	IT-4 unknown ()
Position:	outside
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	0.9 cm – 1.3 cm
Number of letters:	14 – 17
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged, incomplete
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	[unpublished]

Images

Object IT-4 unidentifiable with inscription IT-4.

Object IT-4 unidentifiable with inscription IT-4 - underside.

Object IT-4 unidentifiable with inscription IT-4 - detail underside.

Commentary

The inscription is damaged by one vertical and two horizontal cracks and abrasion (most heavily in the lower part of the middle section). Two lacunae after the first five letters and after the vertical crack before the last three letters.
Most of the letters before the first lacuna, notwithstanding a crack along the upper parts of the first three letters, are readable without difficulty: riθi. Partly damaged by abrasion to the left, the next letter could be (with unusual orientation) or with the third twig missing, which would yield riθie (compare ...). Depending on the interpretation of this sign (larger with the leftmost stroke extending far into the lacuna or more slender ), there may have been another sign completely vanished, but hardly more than . Over the lacuna, on a smaller fragment fitting on top of the main one, the upper angle of what could be , , , , or can be distinguished; the very traces of its continuation on the main fragment may be guessed at, followed by just another such angle whose strokes are continued clearly on the main fragment, showing or , the lower part damaged by abrasion. Like this one, the following signs are damaged both at the top by the crack between the main and the smaller upper fragment and by abrasion in the lower part of the main fragment. Next an oblique stroke slanting down from right to left – possibly the upper third of an . The following stroke could then only be read as , since the next group of strokes can be identified with reasonable certainty as . After , the small fragment completing the signs at the top breaks off. Of the next two letters, only the very tips of which are missing, two large angles are left: the first with two oblique strokes – probably as in case of a trace of the twig should be left –, the second with one straight and one curved line, which could be or, considering the preceding sign, more probably . Right before the vertical crack the remains of a hasta with the trace of one twig ( or ), then the second lacuna. On the next fragment a single stroke which can hardly be anything but , and finally only slightly damaged .
A very tentative reading including all the doubtful surmises could be riθie(i)?esiχurvile.