SZ-73.1
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Transliteration: | e??θ̣ |
Original script: | ?? |
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Object: | SZ-73 helmet (iron) (Inscriptions: SZ-73.1, SZ-73.2) |
Position: | back, right-hand side"right-hand side" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property., outside |
Script: | unknown |
Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
Letter height: | 1.0 cm |
Number of letters: | 4 |
Number of lines: | 1 |
Craftsmanship: | embossed |
Current condition: | damaged |
Archaeological culture: | La Tène B [from object] |
Date of inscription: | 4th–3rd centuries BC [from object] |
Date derived from: | typology [from object] |
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Language: | unknown |
Meaning: | unknown |
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Alternative sigla: | LIR SA-34 a TM 218443 |
Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 149, 336 |
Commentary
First published in Schumacher 1992. Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.
Photos in Schaaff 1977: Taf. 61 (photo), Schumacher 2004: Taf. 1,2 (drawing) and LIR (drawing).
Very faint traces on the neck-guard. is comparatively well legible. It is followed by the upper parts of probably two letters (see drawing), then what can only be the four tips of . Mancini suggests, not implausibly, (or ?) eseθ. The inscription may have been longer, but no further traces can be detected. The letters on the other side of the neck-guard are a discrete inscription.
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) |
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