AS-5

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Inscription
Transliteration: ?
Original script: ?

Object: AS-5 potsherd (pottery)
Position: unknown
Script: unknown
Direction of writing: unknown
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 218 (iii)
LIR ROT-8
MLR 112
TM 218502
Sources: Schumacher 2004: 168

Commentary

First published in Pellegrini 1915: 121. Lost.

According to Pellegrini, written "sul corpo" of the cup, and identical to the mark on a bone needle from Bostel (AS-12, with drawing) – hence Whatmough's reading θi. Cp. EX-95 and EX-96 for dubious scratchings on the walls of cups.

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)