BZ-26

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Inscription
Transliteration:	?]i : perisṇ[
Original script:	][?
Object:	BZ-26 helmet ()
Position:	rim
Orientation:	0°
Script:	North Italic script (Sanzeno alphabet)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	1.7 cm
Number of letters:	7
Number of characters:	8
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	none

Images

Object BZ-26 fragment with inscription BZ-26.

Object BZ-26 fragment with inscription BZ-26 (fragment 1).

Commentary

First published in Lunz & Morandi 2003: 345 ff.

Images in Lunz & Morandi 2003: Fig. 3 (photo) and 4 (drawing).

Length of the remains 5.5 cm. The lines are thin, but well visible; the reading is unambiguous. On the right, the remains of two vertical lines, the left of which can hardly be anything else than . The separator consists in three short vertical scratches, and does not come up to the height of the letters. The hasta of is inclined in writing direction; the second bar of runs along the breaking edge. The identification of the first letter after the separator as (rather than or ) is indisputable; see SL-1 and ??? for a discussion. We can amend to perisna. Cp. BZ-4, where this word is preceded by ipi, which matches the remains of letters before the separator and might conceivably be the case here as well. Cp. also BZ-27.

Bibliography

Lunz & Morandi 2003	Reimo Lunz, Alessandro Morandi, "Un frammento di elmo di bronzo con iscrizione retica da Settequerce – Siebeneich", Archeologia Classica LIV (2003), 341–349.