VR-3

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Inscription
Transliteration:	φaniniuφikuremieshiraφasuvakhikvelisanes
Original script:
Object:	VR-3 spit (bronze)
Position:	side"side" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	0.7 cm
Number of letters:	40
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	complete, damaged
Date of inscription:	uncertain [from object]
Date derived from:	unknown [from object]
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	PID 247 LIR VR-3 MLR 290
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 171 f.

Commentary

• First published in 1672.
• For word segmentation and analysis compare Rix 1998: 33–34.

Pictures:

• Pictures in CII (drawing = Marstrander 1927: 24, Fig. 21)
• Drawing in Schumacher 2004: Taf. 2.4

Further references:

• Marstrander 1927: 24
• Marinetti 1987: 135–138
• CII: 12

Bibliography

AIF I	Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885.
CII	Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum, Torino: 1867. (2 volumes)
Cipolla 1884	Carlo Cipolla, "III. Lavagno", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1884), 4–13.
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 1987	Anna Marinetti, "L'iscrizione retica (PID 247) da Ca' dei Cavri (Verona)", in: Alessandra Aspes (Ed.), Prima della Storia. Inediti di 10 anni di ricerche a Verona, Verona: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 1987, 131–140.
Marstrander 1927	Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander, "Remarques sur les inscriptions des casques en bronze de Negau et de Watsch", Avhandlinger utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo. Hist.-filos. klasse 1926/2 (1927), 1–26.