VR-15

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Inscription
Transliteration:	ạ
Original script:
Object:	VR-15 bone (bone)
Position:	front
Script:	unknown
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Letter height:	1.4 cm
Number of characters:	1
Number of lines:	1
Craftsmanship:	engraved
Current condition:	complete
Date of inscription:	end of the 2nd–beginning of the 1st centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from:	archaeological context [from object]
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	MLR 127 TM 653645

Commentary

First published in Marinetti 2003: 114 (no. 6). Autopsied by TIR on 17^th November 2015.

Images in Marinetti 2003: fig. 1.6 (drawing) (= Marinetti 2004: fig. 2,6), MLR (photo).

Length 1.8 cm. The lines are faint. In a group , the central part may be isolated and read Alpha, esp. as (with the bar not touching the hastae) is the form typical for the find place. The oblique lines on either side are reminiscent of the symbol .

Bibliography

Marinetti 2003	Anna Marinetti, "Iscrizioni retiche di San Giorgio Valpolicella (VR)", Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV) IXX (2003), 111–117.
Marinetti 2004	Anna Marinetti, "Nuove iscrizioni retiche dall'area veronese", Studi Etruschi 70 (2004), 408–420.