Variants and attestation
Pi is one of the letters (together with Lambda and Upsilon) which serve as a basis for distinguishing the Magrè and Sanzeno alphabets (see Script): The variants 
, 
, 
, 
with an angle (sometimes rounded), often termed "Venetoid" in the TIR, are attributed to the Magrè alphabet, while 
with a simple bar on top, as in Western Transpadania, is used in the Sanzeno alphabet.
is considered to be the standard form of Sanzeno Pi. The letter occurs in more than thirty inscriptions and inscriptoids in Sanzeno context. In nine certainly language-encoding inscriptions (CE-1.3, SZ-15.1, SZ-22.1, SZ-30, SZ-87, SZ-98, BZ-9, BZ-10.1, WE-3), twelve tokens represent up to seven different types. Of these, two are attested in Magrè context with certain Pi (piθam(n)e vel sim., pitie vel sim.). The letter generally considered to be Sanzeno Pi 
, with the bar extending against writing direction, is argued to be not Pi, but Tau (see T). On vs. in Sanzeno context, though with obsolete argumentation, see Salomon in Kluge & Salomon 2015 (p. 89–92).
| Kluge & Salomon 2015
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Sindy Kluge, Corinna Salomon, "Ausgewählte Funde aus Dercolo im Kontext der rätischen Inschriften", Wissenschaftliches Jahrbuch der Tiroler Landesmuseen 8 (2015), 80–95.
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| Markey 2006
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Thomas L. Markey, "Early Celticity in Slovenia and at Rhaetic Magrè (Schio)", Linguistica 46 (2006), 145–171.
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