BZ-10.1

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Inscription
Transliteration:	pnake : viθamu / laþe?
Original script:
Object:	BZ-10 slab (porphyry) (Inscriptions: BZ-10.1, BZ-10.2)
Position:	front
Orientation:	90°
Frame:	?   (straight, none, unknown)
Script:	North Italic script (Sanzeno alphabet)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	4.5 cm – 8.5 cm
Number of letters:	15 – 16
Number of lines:	2
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Iron Age [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–2nd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	PID 196 a IR 4 a LIR BZ-13 a
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 181

Images

Inscription BZ-10.1.

Object BZ-10 slab with inscriptions BZ-10.1 (frontside) and BZ-10.2 (backside).

Commentary

Further references: AIF I 36, Franz 1959: 229.

Pictures in AIF I: Taf. II (drawing nach Fabretti) and Franz 1959 (photo).

The small stroke interpreted as a punctuation mark looks more like a twig belonging to , but on the wrong side – possibly a mistake? The sign after laþe cannot be anything but a symbol marking the end of the inscription – compare ....

Bibliography

AIF I	Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885.
Battisti 1944	Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236.
CII	Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum, Torino: 1867. (2 volumes)
De Bernardo Stempel 2009	Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, "La ricostruzione del celtico d'Italia sulla base dell'onomastica antica", in: Paolo Pocetti (Ed.), L'onomastica dell'Italia antica. Aspetti linguistici, storici, culturali, tipologici e classificatori, Roma: 2009, 153–192.
Franz 1951	Leonhard Franz, "Der älteste Fundbericht über das vorgeschichtliche Gräberfeld von Pfatten", Veröffentlichungen des Museums Ferdinandeum 31 (1951), Innsbruck: 1951, 125–132.
Franz 1959	Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229.
Giovanelli 1876	Benedetto Giovanelli, "Die Rhätisch-Etruskischen Alterthümer entdeckt bei Matrei im Mai 1845", Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg 3/20 (1876), 45–99.
IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
Kretschmer 1943	Paul Kretschmer, "Die vorgriechischen Sprach- und Volksschichten (Fortsetzung)", Glotta 30 (1943), 84–218.
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)
Marchesini 2014b	Simona Marchesini, "Über die rätische Inschrift aus Pfatten/Vadena im Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck", Wissenschaftliches Jahrbuch der Tiroler Landesmuseen 7 (2014), 202–217.
Markey 2000	Tom Markey, "Rheto-Celtic Pnake-Vitamulate = *Ben(n)acos Windamolatos", General Linguistics 37 (2000 [1997]), 37–40.