AV-1

edit with form

Inscription
Transliteration:	ṭịp̣ṛụχ̣ṇụḷạṿịṣẹẓ§̣
Original script:
Object:	AV-1 ring (silver)
Position:	outside
Script:	Camunic script
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete, damaged
Archaeological culture:	Hallstatt D [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th century BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	Raetic
Meaning:
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 328

Images

Object AV-1 ring with inscription AV-1.

Object AV-1 ring with inscription AV-1.

Object AV-1 ring with inscripion AV-1.

Object AV-1 ring with inscription AV-1 - unrolled view by digital post processing / photomontage.

Commentary

First published in Ziegaus & Rix 1998: 297–303.

Pictures in Ziegaus & Rix 1998: Abb. 1,3c (photo) and d, e (drawings = Schumacher 2004: Taf. 15,2).

Engraved, probably with an etcher's needle, all around the outside of the ring. The smallness of the surface available can be made responsible for the irregularities in the execution of the characters, if they are indeed such – our reading follows that of Rix in the original publication, who argues that, apart from the sequence of straight strokes and zig-zag-line, the engraving is not regular or symmetrical enough to be merely decorative (p. 298).

Bibliography

Mancini 1980	Alberto Mancini, "Le iscrizioni della Valcamonica. Parte 1: Status della questione. Criteri per un'edizione dei materiali", Studi Urbinati di storia, filosofia e letteratura Supplemento linguistico 2 (1990), 75–167.