AS-21.1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	śv
Original script:
Object:	AS-21 beaker (pottery) (Inscriptions: AS-21.1, AS-21.2)
Position:	bottom
Orientation:	180°
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Letter height:	1.7 cm
Number of characters:	2
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	complete
Date of inscription:	end of the 4th–3rd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	MLR 106 a TM 653528

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 2011b: 203 (no. 6). Autopsied by TIR on 14^th October 2015.

Images in Marinetti 2011b: 203 (6) (drawing), MLR (photo).

Inscribed on the narrow bottom of the beaker, the tops of the characters pointing towards the foot. The characters take up the entire breadth of the bottom; length about 3 cm. Both characters are well legible. The status of as a Raetic letter is dubious; in any case, the sequence is most probably a local workman's mark. Cp. AS-19.2, AS-20, AS-22 and AS-23, and the other instance on the present object.

Bibliography

Marinetti 2011b	Anna Marinetti, "Le iscrizioni retiche dal Bostel di Rotzo (Vicenza)", Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV) XXVII (2011), 201–203.