VN-4
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Transliteration: | iuiui |
Original script: | |
Variant Reading: | $ |
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Object: | VN-4 bone (bone) |
Position: | centre"centre" 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: | 0.90.9 cm <br /> – 1.5 cm |
Number of characters: | 1 – 5 |
Number of lines: | 1 |
Craftsmanship: | engraved |
Current condition: | damaged |
Date of inscription: | 3rd–1st centuries BC [from object] |
Date derived from: | archaeological context [from object] |
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Language: | unknown |
Meaning: | unknown |
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Alternative sigla: | LIR BZ-25 TM 218522 |
Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 178, 209 |
Images
Inscription VN-4.
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Commentary
First published in Schumacher 1992: 178, 209.
Picture in Schumacher 2004: Taf. 3,3 (drawing = LIR).
Length 2.5 cm. Only slightly scratched, but well visible. Non-script, possibly even just one symbol (the inner hastea of the chevrons almost touch the central vertical, while the verticals left and right are standing slightly apart). See here for a discussion of possible interpretations of inscriptions with doubtful status. Note that on the inscribed bones from the Ganglegg, the inscriptions with linguistic content are always inscribed on the right-hand side, while the non-inscriptions (cp. VN-5.1 / VN-6, and VN-19) are put in the centre.
Further references: Schumacher 1994: 312 f.
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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