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== Commentary ==
== Commentary ==
Animal bone of a sheep (''Ovis orientalis aries'') or a goat (''Capra aegagrus hircus'').<br>Complete and light brown in colour. Perforated.<br>At the narrow side, sidewise the centre an [[index::VN-8|inscription]].<br>Like all the bone findings on the [[index::Ganglegg]] hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. {{bib|Gamper & Steiner 1999}}: 50–51).
Animal bone of a sheep (''Ovis orientalis aries'') or a goat (''Capra aegagrus hircus'').<br>Complete and light brown in colour. Perforated.<br>At the narrow side, sidewise the centre an [[index::VN-8|inscription]].<br>Like all the bone findings on the [[index::Ganglegg]] hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. {{bib|Gamper & Steiner 1999}}: 50–51).
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Revision as of 12:45, 18 September 2015

Object
Classification: unidentifiable
Material: bone
Size: length: 13.2 cm, width: 2.5 cm, height: 1.8 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
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E
Find date: 1993
Find circumstances: excavation (Pohl and Wieser)
Current location: Vintschger Museum / Museo della Val Venosta (on exhibition)

Inscription: VN-8 (χarisθu)

Sources: Gamper & Steiner 1999: 48–51, fig. 24.9
Schumacher 1994b: 296–297, fig. 1

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Commentary

Animal bone of a sheep (Ovis orientalis aries) or a goat (Capra aegagrus hircus).
Complete and light brown in colour. Perforated.
At the narrow side, sidewise the centre an inscription.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).

S.K.

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.