IT-3

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Inscription
Transliteration:	piva
Original script:
Variant Reading:	?] az[
Object:	IT-3 potsherd (pottery)
Position:	outside
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Letter height:	2.0 cm
Number of letters:	4
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	fragmentary, restored
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C [from object]
Date of inscription:	250–150 BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	LIR VOL-3
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 190

Commentary

First published in Schumacher 1992.
Pictures in Sinnhuber 1949: Taf. XXV (43) (photo) and Schumacher 2004: Taf. 5,3 (drawing) and 6,2 (photo).
Read piva by Schumacher and Mancini with upside-down , because turning the inscription by 180° turns into rare . Compare, however, in the inscriptions of Steinberg.
Contradictory statements concerning the craftsmanship in Sinnhuber 1949: 64 (before firing) and Schumacher 2004 (after firing). The signs on this as well as on the other potsherds found at the Himmelreich were retraced with chalk for the photo in Sinnhuber 1949.

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)