NO-5

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Inscription
Transliteration:	(?)]?a[
Original script:	(?)]?[
Object:	NO-5 bone ()
Position:	outside
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Letter height:	2 cm
Number of letters:	2
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 212 LIR ME-5
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 151

Images

Object NO-5 potsherd with inscription NO-5.

Commentary

First published in Pauli 1888: 144 ff. Autopsied by TIR in October 2014.

Images in Pauli 1888: Tav. II,3 (drawing), Mayr 1957: Abb. 2 (photo), LIR (drawing).

Dextroverse on the right is clearly identifiable depite the missing top. The hasta to its left is slightly oblique. Pauli read , Whatmough suggested , but in fact not even traces of bars can be verified. If anything, the straight breaking edge to the right of the hasta's top allows for a bar , yielding . The straight breaking edge on the left of the fragment may follow a hasta. Mancini compares φausuθ on NO-7, but note that the object is most certainly a ceramic fragment and not one of bone as assumed by Pauli.

Further references: NRIE 110, Battisti 1944: 234.

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)
Mayr 1957	Karl M. Mayr, "Hirschhornvotive mit rätischen Inschriften aus Meclo (Mechel) am Nonsberg", Der Schlern 31 (1957), 230–231.