BZ-26
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Transliteration: | ?]i : perisṇ[ |
Original script: | ][? |
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Object: | BZ-26 helmet () |
Position: | rim |
Orientation: | 0° |
Script: | North Italic script (Sanzeno alphabet) |
Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
Letter height: | 1.7 cm |
Number of letters: | 7 |
Number of characters: | 8 |
Number of lines: | 1 |
Craftsmanship: | engraved |
Current condition: | damaged, fragmentary |
Date of inscription: | |
Date derived from: | |
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Language: | Raetic |
Meaning: | unknown |
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Alternative sigla: | none |
Images
Object BZ-26 fragment with inscription BZ-26.
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Object BZ-26 fragment with inscription BZ-26 (fragment 1).
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Commentary
First published in Lunz & Morandi 2003: 345 ff.
Images in Lunz & Morandi 2003: Fig. 3 (photo) and 4 (drawing).
Length of the remains 5.5 cm. The lines are thin, but well visible; the reading is unambiguous. On the right, the remains of two vertical lines, the left of which can hardly be anything else than . The separator consists in three short vertical scratches, and does not come up to the height of the letters. The hasta of is inclined in writing direction; the second bar of runs along the breaking edge. The identification of the first letter after the separator as (rather than or ) is indisputable; see SL-1 and ??? for a discussion. We can amend to perisna. Cp. BZ-4, where this word is preceded by ipi, which matches the remains of letters before the separator and might conceivably be the case here as well.
Bibliography
Lunz & Morandi 2003 | Reimo Lunz, Alessandro Morandi, "Un frammento di elmo di bronzo con iscrizione retica da Settequerce – Siebeneich", Archeologia Classica LIV (2003), 341–349. |
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