SZ-74

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Inscription
Transliteration:	þine
Original script:
Variant Reading:	Þ5 s
Object:	SZ-74 scythe (iron)
Position:	tang
Script:	North Italic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	0.90.9 cm <br /> – 1.4 cm
Number of letters:	4
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	embossed
Current condition:	complete, damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	LIR SA-33

Images

Object SZ-74 scythe with inscription SZ-74.

Commentary

First published in LIR. Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.

Pictures in Nothdurfter 1979: 100 (327) (drawing) and LIR (drawing).

Crudely executed with several strokes repeated. The exact shape of the first letter þ cannot be made out due to corrosion, but the reading þine is supported by the same inscription occurring in the same place on another iron farming implement, with þ in the shape .

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)