sa

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Attestation:	CO·23.2 (ṣa), VA·28.2 (as), VB·8 (sa) (3)
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	prob. proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories:	indeterminable
Morphemic Analysis:	unknown
Phonemic Analysis:	/sa/ā/°
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)

Commentary

Reading uncertain in VA·28.2.

The short sequence is most probably an abbreviation of a personal name – cf. especially sasamos, sapsutai and sabi (less likely, as Latin) at the same site, though any other of the myriad Gaulish names in sa° (see Delamarre 2007: 157–162) are possible.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.