Re: a few questions about Messapic language

Douglas G. Kilday wrote:
Italo wrote:

Douglas G. Kilday wrote:

The Messapic alphabet is derived from the Tarentine Doric

The Peuceti seem to've used also another script:http://members.home.nl/cucaro/loomweight.html


That looks like IZIZ (or perhaps ZIZI) in a Greek or Greek-derived alphabet. My guess is that it is an abbreviated identification of the woman who owned the loomweight, either Iz[...] daughter of Iz[...] or Zi[...]
daughter of Zi[...]. This would have sufficed to identify the owner within the community.

From the imprint it seems written from right to left.
I figured that the last letter (on the left) is probably a
Z. But what about the other letter. Is this just a variant
of the same Z? Afaik, it isn't known anywhere else.

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