EN-1
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Transliteration: | aχ[? |
Original script: | ] |
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Object: | EN-1 potsherd (pottery) |
Position: | outside |
Script: | North Italic script |
Direction of writing: | ambiguous |
Number of letters: | 3 |
Number of lines: | 1 |
Craftsmanship: | incised before firing |
Current condition: | damaged, fragmentary |
Archaeological culture: | La Tène A, La Tène B [from object] |
Date of inscription: | first half of the 5th–middle of the 3rd centuries BC [from object] |
Date derived from: | archaeological context, typology [from object] |
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Language: | unknown |
Meaning: | |
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Alternative sigla: | none |
Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 195, 217 |
Images
Object EN-1 potsherd with inscription EN-1.
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Inscription EN-1.
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Object EN-1 potsherd with inscription EN-1.
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Inscription EN-1.
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Commentary
First published in Risch 1984: 29.
Further references: Risch 1989: 1580.
Picture in Risch 1984: 28, Abb 9 (drawing = Risch 1989: 1586, fig. 7 = Schumacher 2004: Taf. 5,4).
Risch 1989 argues that the potsherd, together with three more typically Raetic objects with scratchings found at Ardez, belongs in Frizens-Sanzeno-context and should therefore be considered part of the Raetic corpus. Pellegrini 1985: 98, n. 14 remains sceptical. As, archaeologically, Ardez lies in an area of interference between a number of cultural horizons considered Raetic and/or Celtic, and the two identifiable letters are not decisive palaeographically, an attribution to Raetic is not unassailable. Generally speaking, properly inscribed pottery (as opposed to quasi-script scratchings on Sanzeno bowls and the like) is more typical for the area west of the river Etsch/Adige, usually assigned to the Lepontic (Celtic) corpus. The northernmost Lepontic finds from Graubünden, however, are two gravestones (GR·1 and GR·2).
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) |
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