SZ-18

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Inscription
Transliteration:	χevisianaθi
Original script:
Object:	SZ-18 key (bronze)
Position:	upper area"upper area" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	1.21.2 cm <br /> – 1.5 cm
Number of letters:	11
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	complete, restored
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 199 LIR SA-25 TM 218388
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 136

Images

Object SZ-18 key with inscription SZ-18.

Inscription SZ-18.

Sign on the squared end of SZ-18 key - a quarter of a turn above inscription SZ-18.

Commentary

First published in PID. Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.

Pictures in LIR: 93 (photo and drawing).

Inscription length 7.0 cm. The inscription is in excellent condition, the reading is unambiguous.

On the squared end of the object, a sign (or signs?), part of which is damaged by corrosion. The remains, filled with white inlay like the inscription, appear as . Most probably not script.

Further references: NRIE 95, Battisti 1936b: 597, Battisti 1944: 229 f., Mayr 1962: 222 (1), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 225.

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.
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)