VN-2
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| Transliteration: | ụ]mel[ |
| Original script: | ]   [
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| Object: | VN-2 bone (bone) |
| Position: | front |
| Script: | North Italic script |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Letter height: | 1.2 cm |
| Number of letters: | 4 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | engraved |
| Current condition: | damaged, fragmentary |
| Date of inscription: | 3rd–1st centuries BC [from object] |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context [from object] |
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| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | LIR BZ-23 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 177, 208 |
Images
Commentary
First published in Schumacher 1992: 177, 208.
Picture in Schumacher 2004: Taf. 3,1 (drawing = LIR).
Length of the remains 3.2 cm. The reading is unambiguous despite the condition of the object. The piece of bone is broken to the right of ; but an oblique hasta is clearly visible beside the irregular breaking edge – the reading is based on comparison with VN-3. The lines of are multiply scratched. The object has recently broken into three pieces in storage (it was still seen as a whole by Schumacher); one of the new breaking edges coincides with the hasta of , the second cuts horizontally through and . The inscription may have gone on after , the old break having occurred immediately after the letter. It is, however, too much inclined to indicate a hasta. Cp. the probably identical inscription VN-3.
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) |
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