North Picene alphabet

E14381
Old Italic script ancient alphabet writing system

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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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
North Picene alphabet canonical 2
North Picene language 1
North Picene script 1

Statements (37)

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 self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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 (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Old Italic script → includes → North Picene alphabet ⓘ
South Picene alphabet → relatedToScript → North Picene alphabet ⓘ
North Picene alphabet → languageWritten → North Picene alphabet self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: North Picene language
Picene language → writingSystem → North Picene alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: Picene alphabet
North Picene inscriptions → writingSystem → North Picene alphabet ⓘ
this entity surface form: North Picene script