PU-8

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Inscription
Transliteration:	ṃṿ??[
Original script:	??[
Object:	PU-8 potsherd (pottery)
Position:	outside, side"side" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Orientation:	0°
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Letter height:	1 cm
Number of characters:	3
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Late Iron Age [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–4th centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	LIR SLO-7 MLR 132
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 188, 213

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 1992: 696 (no. 4). Autopsied by TIR in June 2015.

Image in Marinetti 1992: Fig. 1.4 (drawings = LIR), MLR (drawing).

Length about 3 cm. The first character is either with the last bar curving inwards, or (if the scratch is question is irrelevant). The next character is read by Marinetti; only the angle is well visible, the traces above it are very faint – either or (though the latter would be too tall). Marinetti further reads (damaged by the breaking edge), which could not be confirmed by autopsy (see drawing). See here for a discussion of possible interpretations of inscriptions with doubtful status.

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)
Marinetti 1992	Anna Marinetti, "Documenti epigrafici da St. Lorenzen (Val Pusteria, Bolzano). Epigraphische Zeugnisse aus St. Lorenzen (Pustertal, Bozen)", in: Ingrid R. Metzger, Paul Gleirscher, Die Räter / I Reti [= Schriftenreihe der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpenländer, Neue Folge 4], Bozen: Athesia 1992, 691–700.