NO-4

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Inscription
Transliteration: a?(?)l?a[?
Original script: ?]A s?L2 s(?)?A5 s

Object: NO-4 antler (antler)
Position: outside
Script: unknown
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Letter height: 2.22.2 cm <br /> – 2.5 cm
Number of letters: 5
Number of lines: 1
Craftsmanship: engraved
Current condition: damaged, fragmentary
Archaeological culture: Late Iron Age [from object]
Date of inscription: 5th–1st centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from: archaeological context, cultural context [from object]

Language: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: PID 211
IR 2
LIR ME-2
Sources: Schumacher 2004: 151

Images

Commentary

First published in Pauli 1888: 143 f. Autopsied by TIR in October 2014.

Images in Pauli 1888: Tav. II,2 (drawing), Mayr 1957: Abb. 3 (photo), IR (photo tav. XXXVc = LIR) and LIR (drawing).

Length of the remains 6.3 cm. Inscribed along an antler handle, starting at the outer end. The lines are faint, the reading is disturbed by discolourations. A5 s is clear, being comparatively deeply carved; equally, the last preserved letter is definitely A s. The assortment of lines between the two Alphas, originally arranged into two Latin Nus by Pauli, was read uil·p by Mancini. The chevron U2 s following A5 s is clear, the I s following it is not: The left hasta of the chevron is crossed on top by three short parallel lines, which look unintentional, but align with an only slightly more pronounced line line d 01 s to the left of the chevron – possibly only a discolouration. L2 s is faint, but unambiguous; the element interpreted as a punctuation mark is most probably unintentional. Next, a hasta, from whose top a bar line d 20 s seems to extend, but no indentation can be felt – I s instead of P2 s is possible. Compare, however, ]ilp[ on what was probably also an antler handle from Sanzeno (SZ-23). Note also that aulia(?) may be read on NO-9, if the lines are not merely decorative. A short scratch I2 s, which does not converge with the other two, is situated right in the centre of U2 s – maybe Χ3 s (cp. LIR)? A crooked oblique line line d 010 s, which might either be part of a particularly ramshackle letter or an unintentional scratch, is visible between A s and the breaking edge. Pseudo-script cannot be excluded.

Further references: NRIE 89, Battisti 1936b: 595 f., Battisti 1944: 234, Franz 1957: 109, Mayr 1957: 231, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 221.

Bibliography

Battisti 1936b Carlo Battisti, "Rassegna critica degli studi linguistici sull'Alto Adige nel quinquennio 1931-36", Archivio per l'Alto Adige 31/2 (1936), 561–611.
Battisti 1944 Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236.
Franz 1957 Leonhard Franz, "Südtiroler Reitia-Inschriften", Der Schlern 31 (1957), 105–109.
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)
Mayr 1957 Karl M. Mayr, "Hirschhornvotive mit rätischen Inschriften aus Meclo (Mechel) am Nonsberg", Der Schlern 31 (1957), 230–231.