SZ-5.1
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| Transliteration: | vaþanu / reituśnu |
| Original script: |          
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| Object: | SZ-5 bronze (bronze) (Inscriptions: SZ-5.1, SZ-5.2) |
| Position: | front |
| Script: | North Italic script (Sanzeno alphabet) |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Letter height: | 0.50.5 cm <br /> – 0.9 cm |
| Number of letters: | 14 |
| Number of lines: | 2 |
| Craftsmanship: | embossed |
| Current condition: | complete |
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| Language: | Raetic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | IR 18a LIR SA-7a |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 133 |
Images
 Object SZ-5 bronze with inscription SZ-5.1 - front side.
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Commentary
First published in Mayr 1950: 408 (no. V). Autopsied by TIR in October 2014.
Images in Roberti 1950: Tav. II,V (drawing), Mayr 1950: 409 (V), Pellegrini 1951: no. 5a (photo) and 307 (5a) (drawing), LIR (photo and drawing = IR).
Inscribed in two lines on the front of the bronze, both starting at the stylised feet; length 2.8 cm and 2.6 + 1 cm resp. The letters are well legible and unambiguous. In line 1, final is a little offset to the bottom to avoid the bulge of the figurine's arm; in line 2, final is written on the neck of the figurine for the same reason. In neither of the two bars is touching the respective hasta; a reading ni can be excluded.
We are probably concerned with names in both lines – either both are patronymics in -nu, or vaþanu is an individual name only happening to end in -nu. Neither name is independently attested.
Further references: Pellegrini 1951: 310 f. (no. 5a) and 322, Mayr 1952: 176 (no. 5a), Lejeune 1951: 214, Vetter 1954: 71 (no. 5a), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 222.
Bibliography
| IR | Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306. |
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| Lejeune 1951 | Michel Lejeune, "L'Inscription Rétique de Castelcies", Studi Etruschi 21 (1951), 209–214. |
| 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) |
| Mayr 1950 | Karl M. Mayr, "Die Inschriften der Votive von Sanzeno (1)", Der Schlern 24 (1950), 332–336, 407–409. |
| Mayr 1952 | Karl M. Mayr, "Zu den Inschriften der Votive von Sanzeno", Der Schlern 26 (1952), 175–177. |
