SZ-23 antler

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Object
Classification:	handle
Material:	antler
Condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	November 1908
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	13.453
Inscription:	SZ-23 (]ilt[?)
Sources:	PID: 19 f.

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Object SZ-23 antler with inscription SZ-23.

Commentary

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The fragments were correctly aligned by the project's illustrator (see drawing), which led to their identification with another inscription-bearing object: In PID, Whatmough, following Conway, described the object as a calcined broken fragment, probably of a knife-handle, similar to SZ-22 handle, and "damaged at the top as well as on the left edge". While it is possible that Whatmough, who did not see the object himself, misinterpreted Conway's notes, examination of the breaking edges shows that the fragments have come apart only recently. The fragment was probably still in one piece when Conway saw it in 1908. In any case, Mancini did not in this description recognise the fragments he saw in the Ferdinandeum, and republished object(s) and inscription(s) as "inedite" (no. 63 I, II and III in IR). This duplication found its way into the corpus of Schumacher 1992, wherefore object and inscription now bear two sigla SZ-23 (antler) and SZ-64 (horn).

Bibliography

IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
LIR	Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes)