AS-23.1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	śv
Original script:
Object:	AS-23 beaker (pottery) (Inscriptions: AS-23.1, AS-23.2)
Position:	shoulder, inside
Orientation:	180°
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Letter height:	4 cm
Number of characters:	2
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	complete, damaged
Date of inscription:	end of the 4th-3rd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	none

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 2011: 202 (no. 4). Autopsied by TIR on 14^th October 2015.

Image in Marinetti 2011: 202 (4) (drawing).

Inscribed upside-down on the inside of the wall of the beaker, length about 4 cm. The characters are well legible; , with oblique hastae, is damaged by a break. The sequence is most probably a local workman's mark. Cp. AS-19.2, AS-20, AS-21 and AS-22, and the other instance on the present object.

Bibliography

Marinetti 2011	Anna Marinetti, "Scritture e lingue dell'Italia antica", in: Franco Marzatico, Rupert Gebhard, Paul Gleirscher (Eds), Le grandi vie delle civiltà: relazioni e scambi fra il Mediterraneo e il centro Europa dalla Preistoria alla Romanità: catalogo, Trento: Castello del Buonconsiglio: Monumenti e collezioni provinciali 2011, 385–391.