VR-16

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Inscription
Transliteration:	inn
Original script:
Object:	VR-16 bone (bone)
Position:	back
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Letter height:	1.31.3 cm <br /> – 1.6 cm
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete
Date of inscription:	end of the 2nd–beginning of the 1st centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	MLR 126

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 2003: 114 (no. 7). Autopsied by TIR on 17^th November 2015.

Images in Marinetti 2003: fig. 1.7 (drawing) (= Marinetti 2004: fig. 2,7), MLR (photo).

Length 2.3 cm. Faintly engraved, highly dubious. Esp. the second is a jumble of short scratches. Both the writing direction and the two Nus shed doubt on the reading (Marchesini). A St. Andrew's cross is inscribed above ; a couple of notches, one particularly deep, are engraved on the front of the bone. Probably non-, maybe pseudo-script.

Bibliography

Marinetti 2003	Anna Marinetti, "Iscrizioni retiche di San Giorgio Valpolicella (VR)", Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV) IXX (2003), 111–117.
Marinetti 2004	Anna Marinetti, "Nuove iscrizioni retiche dall'area veronese", Studi Etruschi 70 (2004), 408–420.