SZ-19

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Inscription
Transliteration:	k[???????
Original script:	]
Object:	SZ-19 simpulum ()
Position:	handle, side"side" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Letter height:	0.8 cm
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	chased"chased" is not in the list (painted, cast, unknown, engraved, incised, incised before firing, embossed, impressed) of allowed values for the "craftsmanship" property.
Current condition:	damaged
Date of inscription:
Date derived from:
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 200 LIR SA-30
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 136

Images

Object SZ-19 handle with inscription SZ-19.

Inscription SZ-19.

Commentary

First published in PID.
Further references: NRIE 96, Battisti 1944: 230.
Hardly readable due to corrosion. Possibly ] kaþa[ or ] kaφa[; at what is probably the end of the inscription, an asterisk. Possibly traces of punctuation (). Whatmough, who saw the inscription in 1923, read (dextroverse) kuθ[.

Bibliography

Battisti 1944	Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236.
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)