SZ-72

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Inscription
Transliteration: ]ri[
Original script: ]I sR s[
Variant Reading: ]I sK s[
]ki[

Object: SZ-72 scythe ring (iron)
Position: outside
Script: unknown
Direction of writing: ambiguous
Letter height: 0.9 cm
Number of letters: 2
Number of lines: 1
Craftsmanship: chased"chased" is not in the list (painted, cast, unknown, engraved, incised, incised before firing, embossed, impressed) of allowed values for the "craftsmanship" property.
Current condition: complete, damaged
Date of inscription: 2nd–1st centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from: unknown [from object]

Language: unknown
Meaning:

Alternative sigla: LIR SA-68
Sources: Schumacher 2004: 149

Commentary

First published in Schumacher 1992.
Pictures in Nothdurfter 1979: 100 (1073) (drawing) and Mancini 2010 (photo and drawing).
Hardly readably due to corrosion, but apparently the inscription does not belong with SZ-44.1, SZ-45.1 and SZ-46.1 on scythe rings. Compare SZ-47.

Bibliography

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)