NO-1
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| Transliteration: | ?]ukinua[ |
| Original script: |      [?
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| Object: | NO-1 fragment (bronze) |
| Position: | rim |
| Script: | North Italic script |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Letter height: | 0.60.6 cm <br /> 0.6 cm <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 7 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | embossed |
| Current condition: | fragmentary |
| Date of inscription: | |
| Date derived from: | |
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| Language: | Raetic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | PID 209 LIR CL-1 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 150 |
Images
 Object NO-1 fragment with inscription NO-1.
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 Inscription NO-1.
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Commentary
First published in Campi 1886–87: 145 f.. Autopsied by TIR in October 2014.
Image in LIR (drawing).
Length of the remains 4.8 cm. Inscribed on top of the rolled-up rim of a vessel, upright when looked at from the outside. Well legible despite the disjointed lines due to the curvature of the writing surface. ]ukinua[ is unambiguous, although has its lower bar cross the hasta, leading Mayr 1957c (p. 126) to read dextroverse Sigma. The first letter, damaged by the break, was read 
by Campi. Of the line 
, only the lower half is preserved, with a crack opening into the breaking edge. The other line 
clearly ends before it touches the first one. is therefore unlikely, as the writer did not bother to make two strokes for a single line in any of the other letters. A reading 
, as already suggested by Mayr 1957c (p. 126), is more probable, but though the breaking edge is very straight, no traces of a hasta coinciding with it can be verified. The breaking edge after is equally straight and smooth, making a continuation of the inscription possible. If we are concerned with a patronymic in -nu, both -a (genitive) and -ale (pertinentive) are plausible suffixes.
Further references: Pauli 1888: 149 f., NRIE 109, Battisti 1936b: 598, Franz 1958b: 40 (fn 2), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 221.
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. |
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| Campi 1886–87 | Luigi Campi, "I Campi Neri presso Cles nell'Anaunia", Annuario della Società degli Alpinisti Tridentini 13 (1886–87 [1888]), 133–158. |
| Franz 1958b | Leonhard Franz, "Eine Inschrift aus Cles", Der Schlern 32 (1958), 39–40. |
| 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) |
| Mayr 1957c | Karl M. Mayr, "Hirschhornvotiv mit rätischer Inschrift aus Sanzeno am Nonsberg", Der Schlern 31 (1957), 426–427. |
