BZ-17
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| Transliteration: | ? |
| Original script: |  
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| Object: | BZ-17 axe (bronze) |
| Position: | side"side" is not in the list (front, back, top, bottom, inside, outside, neck, shoulder, foot, handle, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property. |
| Script: | none |
| Direction of writing: | ambiguous |
| Letter height: | 1.11.1 cm <br /> – 1.51.5 cm <br /> |
| Number of characters: | 3 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Craftsmanship: | embossed |
| Current condition: | complete |
| Archaeological culture: | Hallstatt B [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 7th–beginning of the 6th centuries BC [from object] |
| Date derived from: | typology [from object] |
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| Language: | none |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | PID 196 ter (b) LIR BZ-1 MLR 17 TM 218539 |
| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 182 f. |
Images
 Inscription BZ-17.
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Commentary
First published in Orsi 1882: 15–16 (n. 8), fig. 1.8. Autopsied by TIR in October 2014.
Images in Lunz 1974: Taf. 6,6 (drawing), Carancini 1984: Tav. 119 (3702) (drawing), LIR (drawings), MLR (photo).
Of the axes found in the hoard, published by Orsi, Whatmough mentioned five bearing characters (see Addendum p. 628); only one of those was judged to be a potential inscription by Schumacher. However, as the latter himself remarks, given context and dating, BZ-17 is highly unlikely to be a Raetic inscription, but belongs with the assortment of characters often found on bronze axes from the Hallstatt era – see the corresponding section on Non-script notational systems.
On the other side, a symbol "a caporale" 
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Further references: Battisti 1944: 228.
Bibliography
| Battisti 1944 | Carlo Battisti, "Osservazioni sulla lingua delle iscrizioni nell'alfabeto etrusco settentrionale di Bolzano", Studi Etruschi 18 (1944), 199–236. |
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| Carancini 1984 | Gian Luigi Carancini, Le asce nell'Italia continentale II [= Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abt. IX 12], München: 1984. |
| 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) |
| Lunz 1974 | Reimo Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit im Südalpenraum, Firenze: Sansoni 1974. |
