VN-15
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| Transliteration: | ? / ]χ̣ạ |
| Original script: |   [
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| Object: | VN-15 bone (bone) |
| Position: | front |
| Script: | North Italic script |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Letter height: | 1.4 cm |
| Number of letters: | 2 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | engraved |
| Current condition: | damaged, fragmentary |
| Date of inscription: | 3rd–1st centuries BC [from object] |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context [from object] |
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| Language: | Raetic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | TM 653631 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 324 |
Images
 Object VN-15 bone with inscription VN-15.
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 Inscription VN-15 - line 1.
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 Inscription VN-15 - line 2.
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Commentary
First published in Schumacher 2004: 324.
Picture in Schumacher 2004: Taf. 13,7 (drawing).
A number of well visible scratches arranged in what appear to be two lines, cut short by the breaking edge. If letters, they seem to be inscribed upside-down; we will therefore describe the scratchings as looked at with the ? pointing to the left. The lower sequence may well represent with the lower part gone, and, though clumsily scratched, upside-down . The reading is supported by inscriptions VN-10 and VN-11, both containing the sequence χa (see there for interpretation). The upper line might conceivably be read ]iia, but 
would be atypical, and the single vertical scratches are too far apart to suggest an actual inscription. Cp. again VN-10, also on a bone, with three lines, one of them of doubtful status.
