PU-11

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Inscription
Transliteration:	kụa
Original script:
Object:	PU-11 stone (stone)
Position:
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Letter height:	0.6 cm
Number of characters:	3
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
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-10
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 326

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 1992: 697 f. (no. 7). Autopsied by TIR in June 2015.

Image in Marinetti 1992: Fig. 2 (photo = LIR).

Well legible. and are unambiguous, is really a smaller chevron with the right line prolonged – Schumacher considers this prolongation a slip of the tool; t as suggested by Marinetti is improbable. 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.