MA-2 antler

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Object
Classification:	antler
Material:	antler
Size:	length 7.5 cm, width 2.9 cm, thickness 0.8 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Este IV
Date:	beginning 4th century BC
Date derived from:	palaeography
Site:	Magrè (fraction of: Schio, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Field name:	Colle del Castello
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 42' 21.60" N, 11° 20' 52.80" E [from site]
Find date:	1912
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo Nazionale Atestino
Inventory Nr.:	I.G. 58811
Inscription:	MA-2 (piθanmelka[θ̣ụṛịẹþ̣ụ)
Sources:	Pellegrini 1918: 185 (No. 13), fig. 20 Nothdurfter 2002: 1148 (list 3, No. 5)

Commentary

Fragment of an antler point. The fragment fits to MA-3 antler like the figure indicates (Pellegrini 1918: 185, fig. 20). The whole object is broken in three sections and now it is fragmentary, at which the present object is the larger one.

Bibliography

Gambacurta 2002b	Giovanna Gambacurta, "Manufatti iscritti in osso o corno", in: Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), Akeo. I tempi della scrittura. Veneti antichi: alfabeti e documenti, 121–126.
Gambacurta et al. 2002	Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), "Catalogo. Veneti antichi. Alfabeti e documenti", in: Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), Akeo. I tempi della scrittura. Veneti antichi: alfabeti e documenti, 157–275.