BZ-21

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Inscription
Transliteration:	ịị?(?)ị[
Original script:	?
Object:	BZ-21 potsherd (pottery)
Position:	bottom, outside
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Number of characters:	3 – 5
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène A [from object]
Date of inscription:	middle of the 5th–1st half of the 4th centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	MLR sub iudice nr. 18 TM 653538

Commentary

First published in Franz 1959: 229 (C. 2). Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.

Only the upper or lower part of the inscription is left: two strokes, a chevron and probably two more strokes. Franz read iiθi, ignoring the leftmost trace, with and very close to each other - if letters, would be a more likely conjecture. Compare, however, BZ-20. See here for a discussion of possible interpretations of inscriptions with doubtful status.

Bibliography

Franz 1959	Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229.