VN-8
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| Transliteration: | χarisθu |
| Original script: |       
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| Variant Reading: | χaris θu
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| Object: | VN-8 bone (bone) |
| Position: | |
| Script: | North Italic script (Sanzeno alphabet) |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Letter height: | 1.1 cm |
| Number of letters: | 5 – 7 |
| Number of characters: | 7 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | engraved |
| Current condition: | complete |
| Archaeological culture: | La Tène C, La Tène D [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 3rd–1st centuries BC [from object] |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context [from object] |
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| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | LIR BZ-29 MLR 249 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 322 |
Images
 Inscription VN-8.
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Commentary
First published in Schumacher 1994b: 296f.
Image in Schumacher 1994b: Abb. 1 (drawing = Schumacher 2004: Taf. 12,4 = LIR = MLR).
Length 4.5 cm. Inscribed with care; the lines are scratched in two parts, each from the outer end inward. The reading of the letters is unambiguous. A slightly bigger gap separates from ; appear a little broader and more spaced out than the other letters. While this may be coincidence, a discrete sequence χaris could be analysed as a Raetic individual name χari in the genitive. Cp. VN-16 with a similar sequence sans , VN-17 with a final 
separated from the preceding sequence by a punctuation mark, and VN-10 / VN-11 with a group at the end of the inscription, also separated. Cp. also SZ-2.2 with possible χari.
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) |
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