MA-7
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| Transliteration: | ]ẹmaniṣ[ |
| Original script: | ]      [
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| Object: | MA-7 antler (antler) |
| Position: | front |
| Script: | North Italic script |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Letter height: | 1.8 cm |
| Number of letters: | 6 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | engraved |
| Current condition: | fragmentary, damaged |
| Date of inscription: | 3rd–2nd centuries BC [from object] |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context [from object] |
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| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | PID 226 LIR MA-20 MLR 66 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 162 |
Commentary
First published in Pellegrini 1918: 189 f. (no. 21).
Images in Pellegrini 1918: 189, fig. 28 (drawing), LIR (photo and drawing).
Length of the remains 5.3 cm. The letters are finely but deeply scratched and well legible. The hasta of coincides with the breaking edge, a break runs along the second bar of . The object is broken along and the lowest bar is missing, but no other letter is possible. No parallel or interpretation can be given.
On the back, on the preserved edge, an arrangement of lines 
(length 1.9 cm), executed with single lines unlike the marks on most other antler votives from Magrè.
Further references: Battisti 1936: 497.
Bibliography
| Battisti 1936 | Carlo Battisti, "Rivista Linguistica Etrusca 1932-35 (Prima puntata)", Studi Etruschi 10 (1936), 488–517. |
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| 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) |
