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Inscription
Transliteration:
Original script: V d

Object: PU-9 potsherd (pottery)
Position: outside
Script: unknown
Direction of writing: ambiguous
Letter height: 1.8 cm
Number of characters: 1
Number of lines: 1
Craftsmanship: incised
Current condition: complete
Archaeological culture: Late Iron Age [from object]
Date of inscription: 5th–4th centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from: archaeological context [from object]

Language: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: LIR SLO-8
Sources: Schumacher 2004: 188, 213

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 1992: 696 f. (no. 5). Autopsied by TIR in June 2015.

Image in Marinetti 1992: Fig. 1.5 (drawing = LIR).

A single character, V d or A s. Further traces on the right could not be confirmed by autopsy. See here for a discussion of possible interpretations of inscriptions with doubtful status.

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)
Marinetti 1992 Anna Marinetti, "Documenti epigrafici da St. Lorenzen (Val Pusteria, Bolzano). Epigraphische Zeugnisse aus St. Lorenzen (Pustertal, Bozen)", in: Ingrid R. Metzger, Paul Gleirscher, Die Räter / I Reti [= Schriftenreihe der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpenländer, Neue Folge 4], Bozen: Athesia 1992, 691–700.