PU-6

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Inscription
Transliteration:	]ạụṃ(?)e
Original script:	](?)?[
Object:	PU-6 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:	sinistroverse
Letter height:	1 cm
Number of letters:	5
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-5 MLR 131 TM 218548
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 188, 212 f.

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 1992: 693 f. (no. 2). Autopsied by Stefan Schumacher in 1992. Currently untraceable.

Image in Marinetti 1992: Fig. 1,2 (drawing = LIR = MLR), Schumacher 2004: Taf. 3,6 (drawing).

Length of the remains about 5 cm. Marinetti's and Schumacher's drawings agree widely. The first letter, damaged by the breaking edge, is conceivably Alpha. The Y-shape (with seriph?) following it may be identified as (cp. PU-5 and PU-11). If the next two characters are read as Mu and Nu (the latter with shortened hasta), they are both turned against writing direction: . Marchesini interprets the entire group as one letter Mu, which was written against writing direction, the corrected by adding the bars again on the left. One way or another, a Mu must be in there. Final Epsilon seems clear.

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.