AS-2

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Inscription
Transliteration:	? iθθi
Original script:	?
Object:	AS-2 potsherd (pottery)
Position:	bottom
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Number of characters:	4
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	incised
Current condition:	unknown
Date of inscription:	4th–2nd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	PID 217 LIR ROT-1 MLR 109 TM 218499
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 167

Images

Inscription AS-2 according to Oberziner.

Inscription AS-2 according to Molon.

Inscription AS-2 according to Nalli.

Commentary

First published in Fiorelli 1881: 154 f. Lost.

Images in Fiorelli 1881: 154 (drawing by Francesco Molon), Oberziner 1883b: 163 (drawing = AIF I: Taf. II, 31), Nalli 1895: 258 (drawing).

Molon's drawing (reproduced by Fiorelli) presents abstract letters rather than a facsimile, and Oberziner's is simply a copy of Fiorelli's; Nalli's drawing appears to be the most authentic one available. As already seen by Pellegrini 1915: 123, the group on the left can be identified as the sequence , which reoccurs on the bottom of beakers from Bostel. The longer sequence on the right may represent an inscription with linguistic content, cp. esp. AS-15. As Whatmough and Pellegrini point out, a reading Iota instead of C is likely in both instances of an apparently curved line, as in , hence Whatmough's reading iθunaθuśi. We prefer not to speculate based on the dubious drawing.

Further references: AIF I: no. 31, Pellegrini 1915: 121 ff., Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 236.

Bibliography

AIF I	Carl Pauli, Altitalische Forschungen. Band 1: Die Inschriften nordetruskischen Alphabets, Leipzig: 1885.
Fiorelli 1881	Giuseppe Fiorelli, "VII. Rotzo", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1881), 154–155.
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)