SR-11

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Inscription
Transliteration: iaiu
Original script: U2 sI sA sI s

Object: SR-11 stone (porphyry)
Position: front
Script: unknown
Direction of writing: ambiguous
Letter height: 13 cm
Number of characters: 4
Number of lines: 1
Craftsmanship: engraved
Current condition: complete
Date of inscription: 3rd century BC [from object]
Date derived from: archaeological context [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: IR 93
LIR SE-13
MLR 83
TM 218469
Sources: Schumacher 2004: 159

Images

Commentary

First published in Pellegrini & Sebesta 1965: 15 (no. 11). Autopsied by TIR in November 2014.

Images in IR: (photo tav. LV b = LIR), MLR (photos).

Length about 22 cm. The lines tend to converge at the top, the grouping of them into characters is dubious. Probably non- or pseudo-script. Cp. IT-6, also on a ciottolone. See Non-script notational systems for a discussion of possible interpretations of inscriptions with doubtful status. On the back, a character symbol s with the intersecting lines at a right angle, and turned 45° in relation to the inscription.

Bibliography

IR Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
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)