)?an

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Attestation: MI·13 (]?an) (1)
Language: unknown
Word Type: undeterminable

Grammatical Categories: indeterminable

Morphemic Analysis: unknown
Phonemic Analysis: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Commentary

Possibly an abbreviation of a personal name, but nothing can be compared with the beginning of the inscription missing. Final -an could theoretically be the ā-stem accusative singular ending -ān, but the fact that accusatives otherwise only occur in the more complex Cisalpine Celtic texts makes this unlikely (cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1984: 122).

Corinna Salomon

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