VN-10 bone

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	bone
Size:	length 12 cm
Condition:	complete
Date:	3rd–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Ganglegg
Archaeological context:	eastern hillside
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E
Find date:	probably between 1989 and 1997
Find circumstances:	excavation (Pohl and Wieser)
Current location:	Vintschger Museum Schluderns
Inscription:	VN-10 (laθur/lumene χa/lu)
Sources:	Gamper & Steiner 1999: 48–49, fig. 24.7, fig. 26 Schumacher 2004: 322–323, pl. 13.1 Gamper 2006: 142–143, fig. 76.1

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Object VN-10 bone with inscription VN-10.

Object VN-10 bone with inscription VN-10.

Object VN-10 bone - detail.

Commentary

Animal long bone (Ossa longa).
Bone from a foreleg of a sheep (Ovis orientalis aries) or a goat (Capra aegagrus hircus); complete; at the rounded end perforated end-to-end; in the area of the socket also perforated, but not end-to-end and vertically.
Along an inscription in two lines.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).
In Gamper & Steiner 1999: fig. 24.7 (drawing), fig. 26 (photo).

Bibliography

Gamper 2006	Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006.
Gamper & Steiner 1999	Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.