P
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| Character | |
|---|---|
| Customary name: | pi |
Variants and attestation
| Transliteration | Sinistroverse | Dextroverse | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glyph | Number | Glyph | Number | |
| P | 
|
8 | 
|
9 |
| P2 | 
|
29 | 
|
3 |
| P3 | 
|
1 | 
|
0 |
| P4 | 
|
2 | 
|
0 |
| P5 | 
|
1 | 
|
0 |
| P6 | 
|
1 | 
|
0 |
Commentary
Pi is one of the letters (together with Lambda and Upsilon) which serve as a basis for distinguishing the Magrè and Sanzeno alphabets (see Script): The variants 
, 
, 
, 
with an angle (sometimes rounded), often termed "Venetoid" in the TIR, are attributed to the Magrè alphabet, while 
with a simple bar on top, as in Western Tarnspadania, is used in the Sanzeno alphabet. Note that 
with the bar extending against writing direction is not Pi, but Tau (see T). On vs. in Sanzeno context, though with obsolete argumentation, see Salomon in Kluge & Salomon 2015 (p. 89–92).
Bibliography
| Kluge & Salomon 2015 | Sindy Kluge, Corinna Salomon, "Ausgewählte Funde aus Dercolo im Kontext der rätischen Inschriften", Wissenschaftliches Jahrbuch der Tiroler Landesmuseen 8 (2015), 80–95. |
|---|---|
| Markey 2006 | Thomas L. Markey, "Early Celticity in Slovenia and at Rhaetic Magrè (Schio)", Linguistica 46 (2006), 145–171. |
