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, restored
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 ??.
Further references: Conestabile 1843: 70, tav. 1,4, CII 60, tav. VI, Corssen 1874: 937 (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., Marstrander 1927: 23 f., Pisani 1935: 95, Vetter 1943: 80, Battisti 1944: 225 f., Kretschmer 1943: 200, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 227 f.
Pictures in AIF I: Taf. II (33) (drawing) and LIR (drawing).
Neatly executed apart from the first and second resp. , whose lowest strokes cross the line (no white inlay). The first is orientated against the writing direction. The fragment is broken along the first stroke of in aχvili and has a crack along the last .

For word segmentation and analysis compare Rix 1998: 31–32.

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.