BZ-4

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Inscription
Transliteration:	pevaśniχesiupikuθiuθisaχvilipiperisnaθi
Original script:
Object:	BZ-4 fragment (bronze)
Position:	inside, rim
Frame:	(none, top and bottom, none)
Script:	North Italic script (Sanzeno alphabet)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	1.21.2 cm <br /> – 1.8 cm
Number of letters:	39
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete, damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	PID 192 LIR BZ-4
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 179

Images

Inscription BZ-4.	Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.	Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.	Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.	Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.
Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.

Commentary

First published in Conestabile 1863: 40 f. Autopsied by TIR in April 2014.

Pictures in Conestabile 1863: Pl. 1,4, CII: Tab. VI,60 (drawing), Corssen 1874: 937 (drawing), AIF I: Taf. II (33) (drawing = Marstrander 1927: 24, Fig. 20) and LIR (drawing).

Neatly executed apart from the first , where the writer started with a hasta, then eradicated the lower part with tiny scratches and added the lower angle – this lapse is probably responsible for the first being orientated against the writing direction. The fragment is broken along the first stroke of in aχvili and has a crack along the last . Two lines border the inscription top and bottom; the fact that they are scratched, somewhat untidily, in steps, and more slightly than the inscription, indicates that they are not meant as an ornamental frame, but were made for guidance.

Alternative reading in Marstrander 1927: 23 f. For word segmentation and analysis compare Rix 1998: 31–32.

Further references: CII 60, Corssen 1874: 937 ff (no. 33), Pichler 1880: 41 (no.4), Oberziner 1883: 175 f. (?), AIF I 33, Deecke 1886: 62 f. (?), Meyer 1901: 7, 15, Torp 1906: 10 ff., Pisani 1935: 95, Vetter 1943: 80, Battisti 1944: 225 f., Kretschmer 1943: 200, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 227 f.

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)
Conestabile 1863	Giancarlo Conestabile, Second spicilegium de quelques monuments écrits ou épigraphes des Étrusques. Musées de Londres, de Berlin, de Manheim, de La Haye, de Paris, de Pérouse (Italie), Paris: Librairie Académique - Didier et Cie 1863.
Corssen 1874	Wilhelm Paul Corssen, Ueber die Sprache der Etrusker. Band 1, Leipzig: 1874.
Deecke 1886	Wilhelm Deecke, "–", review of: Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885, Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen 2 (1886), 49–70.
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)
Marstrander 1927	Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander, "Remarques sur les inscriptions des casques en bronze de Negau et de Watsch", Avhandlinger utgitt av Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi i Oslo. Hist.-filos. klasse 1926/2 (1927), 1–26.