VR-17

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Inscription
Transliteration:	]mai·ma
Original script:	[
Object:	VR-17 bone point (bone)
Position:
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	0.8 cm
Number of letters:	5
Number of characters:	6
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	fragmentary, damaged
Date of inscription:	end of the 2nd–beginning of the 1st centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	MLR 125

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 2003: 114 (no. 14). Autopsied by TIR on 17^th November 2015.

Images in Marinetti 2003: fig. 2.14 (drawing) (= Marinetti 2004: fig. 3,14), MLR (photo).

Length of the remains 2.7 cm. Well legible. The hasta of first Mu is broken off; the second hasta of final Alpha is shortened. The punctuation mark is a correct syllabic punct if the second element of the diphthong is regarded as a (semi-)consonantal element. Note the appearance of Mu with four bars, unknown in the Raetic alphabets.

Bibliography

Marinetti 2003	Anna Marinetti, "Iscrizioni retiche di San Giorgio Valpolicella (VR)", Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV) IXX (2003), 111–117.
Marinetti 2004	Anna Marinetti, "Nuove iscrizioni retiche dall'area veronese", Studi Etruschi 70 (2004), 408–420.