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|condition=complete, damaged
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|site=Lana / Lana
|site=Lana / Lana
|field_name=St. Hippolyte / San Ippolito
|field_name=St. Hippolyt / San Ippolito,
|find_context=near the cremation grave
|find_context=near the cremation grave
|find_circumstances=excavation
|find_circumstances=excavation

Revision as of 20:14, 27 February 2014

Object
Classification: sickle
Material: iron
Size: length 23.5 cm
Condition: complete, damaged

Site: Lana / Lana (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name: St. Hippolyt / San Ippolito
Archaeological context: near the cremation grave
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 36' 43.20" N, 11° 9' 46.80" E [from site]
Find date: October 1893
Find circumstances: excavation
Current location: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.: 17.322

Inscription: BZ-19 ($iị)

Sources: Franz 1959: 229, fig. 3.3
Kaltenhauser 1966: 62, pl. 15.8

Commentary

Sickle (leaf harvesting knife) with tang.
Curved blade, cutting edge inside; the wide tang twice perforated. Partly highly corroded, along corrosion holes. Front part and back in a moderate condition.
Near the tang characters.
In Franz 1959 only a circumscription.

Bibliography

Franz 1959 Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229.
Kaltenhauser 1966 Gerard Kaltenhauser, Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Altertümer von St. Hippolyt bei Tisens, Innsbruck: 1966. (2 volumes: text volume and volume of plates; unpublished doctoral research study)