North Picene alphabet
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The North Picene alphabet is an ancient, little-understood writing system used in pre-Roman Italy to record the North Picene language.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Old Italic script
→
ancient alphabet → writing system → |
| chronology | 1st millennium BCE → |
| culturalContext | North Picene people → |
| deciphermentStatus | only partially understood → |
| distinctFrom |
Etruscan alphabet
→
Latin alphabet → South Picene alphabet → |
| documentationLevel | poorly attested → |
| evidenceType | inscriptions → |
| geographicContext |
Northeastern Italy
→
surface form: "Adriatic coast of Italy"
|
| graphemeType |
consonant letters
→
vowel letters → |
| historicalContext | pre-Roman Italic cultures → |
| ISO15924Status | no ISO 15924 code → |
| languageWritten |
North Picene alphabet
→
surface form: "North Picene language"
|
| notableInscription | Stele of Novilara → |
| numberOfKnownInscriptions | very few → |
| region |
Picenum
→
central Adriatic Italy → |
| relatedTo |
Etruscan alphabet
→
Oscan alphabet → South Picene alphabet → Umbrian alphabet → |
| researchField |
epigraphy
→
historical linguistics → paleography → |
| scriptFamily | Old Italic scripts → |
| scriptLineageHypothesis | derived from Etruscan script (hypothesized) → |
| status | undeciphered → |
| timePeriod | pre-Roman Italy → |
| UnicodeStatus | not encoded in Unicode → |
| usedFor | writing the North Picene language → |
| writingDirection | right-to-left → |
| writingMedium | stone inscriptions → |
| writingSystemType | alphabetic → |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "North Picene language"