AS-1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	?
Original script:	?
Object:	AS-1 potsherd (pottery)
Position:	unknown
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	unknown
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	unknown
Date of inscription:	4th–2nd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 216 LIR ROT-2
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 167

Images

Inscription AS-1 according to Orsi.

Commentary

First published in Orsi 1890: 293 f. Lost.

Image in Orsi 1890: 293 (drawing).

According to Orsi, the inscription is written somewhere "in fondo" of the fragmentary vessel, and damaged. He adds a highly suspicious drawing of only the characters, and offers no reading. Pellegrini (1915: 121 (note 4) / 1918: 192 f. (note 3)) assumes that the fragment is not of a "pentola", but of a cup similar to the ones on which the other inscriptions are written. The common reading (dextroverse) ]iśnaśu goes back to him; the idea that the inscription is incomplete on the left is based on the comparison with MA-4 and MA-14. He appears not to have seen the object himself. In Orsi's drawing, only , and maybe qualify as letters. The status of as a Raetic letter is dubious, but the form does repeatedly occur in Bostel as part of what is probably a manufacturer's mark (AS-19, AS-20, AS-21, AS-22, AS-23). The character in the centre is probably misrepresented. In light of the recent inscription finds from Bostel, AS-1 may have (had) linguistic content, but we prefer not to speculate based on the inadequate drawing.

Further references: Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 236.

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)