SZ-16 statuette

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Object
Classification:	statuette
Material:	bronze
Size:	height 10.5 cm
Condition:	complete
Date:	450–400 BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1846
Current location:	Castello del Buonconsiglio, monumenti e collezioni provinciali
Inventory Nr.:	3038
Inscription:	SZ-16 (laθurusitianusatanin)
Sources:	Walde Psenner 1983: 107–108 (No. 85), fig. 85 and 85a Guaitoli 2004: 23 with fig cat. 7.3 Oberosler 2004c: 657–658

Images

Object SZ-16 statuette with inscription SZ-16 - front side.

Object SZ-16 statuette with inscription SZ-16 - sideview.

Object SZ-16 statuette with inscription SZ-16 - backside.

Object SZ-16 statuette with inscription SZ-16 - sideview.

Commentary

Bronze statuette of a warrior. Surface smoothed, patina from dark brown to greenish. The statuette stands on a small round foot, along the edge an inscription.
According to Walde Psenner 1983: 108 and Oberosler 2004c: 658, the statuette dates - in agreement with other bronze statuettes of the same type - to the 5th century BC.
Possibilities for interpretation: statuette of a warrior or statuette of the divinity Mars.

Bibliography

Ghislanzoni 1931	Ettore Ghislanzoni, "Sanzeno nell'Anaunia. Scavi di abitazioni preromane", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , Vol. VII (1931), 409–471.
Guaitoli 2004	Maria Teresa Guaitoli, "La dimensione di guerriero, principe ed eroe attraverso le fonti letterarie e le testimonianze archeologiche", in: Franco Marzatico, Paul Gleirscher (eds), Guerrieri, principi ed eroi fra il Danubio e il Po dalla preistoria all’alto medioevo, Trento: Castello del Buonconsiglio 2004, 17–33.