PU-5

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Inscription
Transliteration:	ṿakụ
Original script:
Object:	PU-5 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:	dextroverse
Letter height:	0.7 cm
Number of letters:	4
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	unknown
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-4 MLR 130 TM 218547
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 187, 212

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 1992: 692 f. (no. 1). Autopsied by Stefan Schumacher in 1992. Currently untraceable.

Image in Marinetti 1992: Fig. 1,1 (drawing = LIR = MLR), Schumacher 2004: Taf. 3,5 (drawing).

Length 1.9 cm. Marinetti's and Schumacher's drawings agree widely, including initial inverted Digamma, for which Marchesini suggests an alternative reading as Lambda (apparently doubting the existence of the upper bar). The final letter is read by Marinetti, but Schumacher and Marchesini prefer (cp. PU-11).

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.