BZ-10.2

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Inscription
Transliteration:	?
Original script:	?
Object:	BZ-10 slab (porphyry) (Inscriptions: BZ-10.1, BZ-10.2)
Position:	back, right-hand side"right-hand side" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	unknown
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	damaged
Archaeological culture:	Iron Age [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–2nd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 196 b IR 4 b LIR BZ-13 b
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 181, 341 f.

Images

Inscription BZ-10.2.

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

Commentary

First published in CII 24. Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.

Pictures in Sulzer 1855: Tav. IX (drawing), Schneller 1866: Taf. II, Fig. 3, CII: tab. II (drawing = AIF I: Taf. II,36 A), Giovanelli 1876: Taf. II, No. 4 (drawing), Oberziner 1883b: tab. XX, IR: Tav. XXXVI c (photo) and LIR (drawing).

Hardly readable due to weathering. Autopsy was impeded by the fact that the slab is currently on exhibition, fixedly attatched to the ground with its back to a wall. The shapes reproduced in older drawings could to some extent be ascertained, including the unequalness of the scratches as seen on Mancini's photo – some deep and broad, some more fine and shallow and white in colour (see drawing). Though one may assume that the stone was in better condition when examined by the scholars of the 19^th century, the relevance of the white lines is doubtful. Though the deeper scratches are hardly unintentional, no further traces can (in the present circumstances) be made out in their vicinity.

Further references: Sulzer 1855: 307, Weber 1861: 36, Schneller 1866: 198 f., Giovanelli 1876: 97, Pichler 1880: 41 (no. 5), Oberziner 1883b: 150, AIF I 36, Battisti 1944: 227 f., Pisani 1953 321.

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)
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.
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.