SZ-32 antler

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Object
Classification:	handle
Material:	antler
Size:	length: 7.8 cm, width: 2.6 cm, height: 1.5 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:
Find circumstances:	old finding
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	13.443
Inscription:	SZ-32 (]þipupi)
Sources:	Nothdurfter 2002: 1150 (list 3, No. 8)

Images

Object SZ-32 antler with inscription SZ-32.

Commentary

Handle, probably of a knife or a tool.
Smoothed surface, on both ends broken.
Doubts in matters of the material. The literature, e.g. Nothdurfter 2002: 1150, indicates the two possibilities: antler or bone. In the museum the object is described as made of bone.
On one longside an inscription, on the other longside a decoration in form of a dice eye.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K.

S.K.

Bibliography

Fogolari 1960	Giulia Fogolari, "Sanzeno nell'Anaunia", in: Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Province di Romagna (Eds), Civiltà del Ferro. Studi pubblicati nella ricorrenza centenaria della scoperta di Villanova [= Documenti e studi VI], Bologna: Forni 1960, 265–321.
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)