BZ-26

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Inscription
Transliteration: ?]i : perisṇ[
Original script: ]N sS sI sR sE sP2 spunctuation3 sI s[?

Object: BZ-26 helmet ()
Position: rim
Orientation:
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:

Language: Raetic
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: none

Images

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 I s. The separator consists in three short vertical scratches, and does not come up to the height of the letters. The hasta of E s is inclined in writing direction; the second bar of N s runs along the breaking edge. The identification of the first letter after the separator as P2 s (rather than T d or Þ3 s) 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.