PU-9

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Inscription
Transliteration:	ṿ
Original script:
Object:	PU-9 potsherd (pottery)
Position:	outside
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Letter height:	1.8 cm
Number of characters:	1
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Late Iron Age [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–4th centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	LIR SLO-8 MLR 133
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 188, 213

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 1992: 696 f. (no. 5). Autopsied by TIR in June 2015.

Image in Marinetti 1992: Fig. 1.5 (drawing = LIR), MLR (drawing = Marinetti 1992).

A single character, or possibly . Further traces on the right could not be confirmed by autopsy. See here for a discussion of possible interpretations of inscriptions with doubtful status.

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)
Marinetti 1992	Anna Marinetti, "Documenti epigrafici da St. Lorenzen (Val Pusteria, Bolzano). Epigraphische Zeugnisse aus St. Lorenzen (Pustertal, Bozen)", in: Ingrid R. Metzger, Paul Gleirscher, Die Räter / I Reti [= Schriftenreihe der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpenländer, Neue Folge 4], Bozen: Athesia 1992, 691–700.