AS-1
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| Transliteration: | ? |
| Original script: | ? |
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| Object: | AS-1 potsherd (pottery) |
| Position: | unknown |
| Script: | unknown |
| Direction of writing: | unknown |
| Craftsmanship: | incised |
| Current condition: | unknown |
| Date of inscription: | 4th–2nd 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: | PID 216 LIR ROT-2 MLR 98 TM 218498 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 167 |
Images
 Inscription AS-1 according to Orsi.
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Commentary
First published in Orsi 1890: 293 f. Lost.
Image in Orsi 1890: 293 (drawing = MLR).
According to Orsi, the inscription is written somewhere "in fondo" of the fragmentary vessel, and damaged. He adds a highly suspicious drawing of only the characters, and offers no reading. Pellegrini (1915: 121 (note 4), 123 / 1918: 192 f. (note 3)) assumes that the fragment is not of a "pentola", but of a cup similar to the ones on which the other inscriptions are written. The common reading (dextroverse) ]iśnaśu goes back to him; the idea that the inscription is incomplete on the left is based on the comparison with MA-4 and MA-14. He appears not to have seen the object himself. In Orsi's drawing, only 
, 
and maybe 
qualify as letters. The status of 
as a Raetic letter is dubious, but the form does repeatedly occur in Bostel as part of what is probably a manufacturer's mark (see śv). The character in the centre is probably misrepresented. In light of the recent inscription finds from Bostel, AS-1 may have (had) linguistic content, but we prefer not to speculate based on the inadequate drawing.
Further references: Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 236.
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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