IT-8
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| Transliteration: | piθan[ |
| Original script: | ]    
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| Variant Reading: | riθan[ ] 
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| Object: | IT-8 potsherd (pottery) |
| Position: | outside |
| Script: | North Italic script (Magrè alphabet) |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Letter height: | 11 cm <br /> – 1.6 cm |
| Number of letters: | 5 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | incised before firing |
| Current condition: | incomplete |
| Archaeological culture: | La Tène A [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | |
| Date derived from: | |
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| Language: | Raetic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
Images
 Object IT-8 potsherd with inscription IT-8.
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 Inscription IT-8 - left part.
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 Inscription IT-8 - right part.
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 Object IT-8 potsherd with inscription IT-8.
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Commentary
First published in TIR. First print publication in Salomon 2018: 94f. Examined by TIR in July 2014.
Images in Tschurtschenthaler & Wein 1998: 249, Abb. 24 (photo) and Salomon 2018: 94, fig. 60 (drawing = drawing on this page).
Length of the remains 3.8 cm, starting from the lower part of the handle, running upwards. It is unlikely that the handle broke along a hasta, as it would have been very close to preceding nu, and the edge is scraggy. The letters are legible without ambiguity, apart from the first one: the angle, rounded, does not quite reach either the bottom of the line or the hasta, although the letters generally are very tidily scratched. We prefer a reading as a variant of Venetoid two-bar pi , as should be expected in the context of the Magrè alphabet, over rho based on comparison with similar letter shapes in IT-4 and maybe ST-2, and the likelihood of a reading with initial pi – cf. especially MA-2 piθanme. This form of pi seems to be typical for the Raetic north (see Script). Another letter form typical for North Tyrol is small theta , which also occurs in IT-7 and IT-9.
