PU-10

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Inscription
Transliteration: ]?ṇịẹχ̣
Original script: Χ sE sI sN s?[

Object: PU-10 potsherd (pottery)
Position: bottom, outside
Orientation:
Script: unknown
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Letter height: 0.7 cm
Number of characters: 4
Number of lines: 1
Craftsmanship: incised
Current condition: damaged, fragmentary
Archaeological culture: Late Iron Age [from object]
Date of inscription: 5th–4th centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from: archaeological context [from object]

Language: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: LIR SLO-9
MLR 134
TM 218552
Sources: Schumacher 2004: 188, 213

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 1992: 697 (no. 6). Autopsied by TIR on 16th November 2015.

Image in Marinetti 1992: Fig. 1.6 (drawing = LIR = MLR).

Length of the remains 2.4 cm. The upper parts of all characters are damaged by the breaking edge. On the right, a bar line d 20 s, interpreted as the remains of N s by Marinetti. Then probably another N s; next, an oblique hasta (I s?). E s is comparatively clear, the topmost bar coinciding with the breaking edge. Last, Χ s inclined to the left. See here for a discussion of possible interpretations of inscriptions with doubtful status.

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)
Marinetti 1992 Anna Marinetti, "Documenti epigrafici da St. Lorenzen (Val Pusteria, Bolzano). Epigraphische Zeugnisse aus St. Lorenzen (Pustertal, Bozen)", in: Ingrid R. Metzger, Paul Gleirscher, Die Räter / I Reti [= Schriftenreihe der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpenländer, Neue Folge 4], Bozen: Athesia 1992, 691–700.