sχsi

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Word
Language:	unknown
Word type:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Attestation:	SZ-17 (sχsi), SZ-38 (ṣχsi) (2)

Commentary

Occurring twice, once on a bronze handle, once on an iron knife. Pellegrini 1951: 316 thinks of a factory mark or a number; Schumacher 2004: 299 f. suggests a factory mark in the pertinentive -si, with the manufacturer's name shortened ('[made] in the workshop of S(?)χ*') (cp. also IR: 272). We do not, however, know enough about the practice of metalworking in Sanzeno to judge whether the same workshop would have produced both bronze and iron implements, if indeed both objects were manufactured there.

Bibliography

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