SZ-52 bowl

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	Sanzeno-Schale
Material:	pottery
Condition:	complete, damaged
Date:	3rd–2nd centuries 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:	22.05.1901
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	11.944
Inscription:	SZ-52 (iiiiiiθa)
Sources:	IR: 277 (No. 51), pl. XLVI, fig. b

Commentary

Sanzeno bowl.
Fine clay, from dark brown to blackish in colour; moderate tempered of fine grained sand and cast gold; reduction firing; burnished. High neck and the typical omphalos.
Between neck and belly decoration in form of two parallel, circumferential ribbons. Below further decorations: at four positions a group of strokes at which the number of strokes is alternating. Decorations before firing.
Outside at the transition from the belly to the bottom characters which were also incised before firing.
The find date, 22.05.1901, is given by Mancini (cp. LIR: 110; the information reminds of the find date of SZ-29 bowl, SZ-54 bowl, SZ-59 bowl, SZ-60 bowl, SZ-61 bowl as well as SZ-83 bowl given also by Mancini, cp. LIR: 141 [No. SA-101] resp. LIR: 132 [No. SA-81], LIR: 130 [No. SA-79], LIR: 103 [No. SA-40], LIR: 106 [No. SA-43], LIR: 113 [No. SA-53] and LIR: 141 [No. SA-100]). Further find circumstances like exact find place are unknown. Only Mancini indicates the 22th may of 1901 as find date. Related to the find spot Sanzeno it is known that there a two-day excavation directed by Franz von Wieser took place in the spring of this year (cp. Von Merhart 1926: 71–72). The objects found during this excavation were then brought to the Tyrolean State Museum (cp. Von Merhart 1926: 72; moreover von Merhart states here that the major part of all the findings made in Sanzeno between 1898 and 1914 was acquired by von Wieser for the Tyrolean State Museum). Connecting both information, in all probability the object comes from the excavation directed by von Wieser.
In accord with the typology the bowl can be dated to the 3rd–2nd centuries BC.
Probably first published in IR: 277, No. 51.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K.

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)