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{{object
|name=Paletta di Padova
|type_object=spatula
|material=bronze
|dimension=length 27.7 cm, width 9.3 cm
|condition=complete
|sortdate=-500
|date=6th–5th centuries BC
|date_derivation=typology
|site=Padova
|field_name=courtyard of the convent Sant'Antonio
|find_circumstances=stray find
|coordinate_n=45.40079
|coordinate_e=11.88085
|sortdate_find=1899
|location=Museo Archeologico di Padova
|inventory_number=XIX-90
|accessibility=on exhibition
|source=Gregnanin 2000: 157–159, fig. 277a (recto), fig. 277b (verso)
|checklevel=3
|problem=object indication: ritual shovel???
}}
== Commentary ==
Bronze ritual shovel. Cast.<br>The decoration on the front side, representing a horse, chiseled. The decoration indicates a date to the turn from type A to type B at which the type B dates to the 6th–5th centuries BC.<br>On the back side an [[index::PA-1.1|inscription]] at the margin on the left as well as on the right and [[index::PA-1.2|characters]] in the form of an asterisk and ''a caporale'' at the lower area of the handle.

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