PU-4 plaque

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Object
Classification:	plaque
Material:	scist"scist" is not in the list (pottery, stone, gold, silver, bronze, copper, iron, lead, antler, bone, ...) of allowed values for the "material" property.
Size:	length 7.3 cm, width 2.9 cm, thickness 1.2 cm
Condition:	unknown
Date:	5th century BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	St. Lorenzen / San Lorenzo di Sebato (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	near the Roman site
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 46' 55.20" N, 11° 54' 14.40" E [from site]
Find date:	1966
Current location:	Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Ufficio Beni archeologici Bolzano
Inscription:	PU-4 (χarse)
Sources:	Dal Rì 1987: 178 (No. 733), fig. 306

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Object PU-4 plaque with inscription PU-4 - front side.	Object PU-4 plaque with inscription PU-4 - rear side.	Object PU-4 plaque with inscription PU-4 - sideview.	Object PU-4 plaque with inscription PU-4 - sideview.	Object PU-4 plaque - sideview.
Object PU-4 plaque - sideview.

Commentary

Rectangular tablet of mica schist. Perforated a number of times without respecting the inscription.
The current location is uncertain: either the Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Ufficio Beni archeologici Bolzano or the Stadtmuseum Bozen / Museo Civico Bolzano.

Bibliography

Constantini 2002	Raffaela Constantini, Sebatum [= Città romane 4], Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider 2002. Atlante tematico di topografia antica; XII Supplemento
Dal Rì 1987	Lorenzo Dal Rì, "Influssi etrusco-italici nella regione retico-alpina", in: Raffaele De Marinis (Ed.), Gli Etruschi a nord del Po, Mantova: Regione Lombardia - Provincia e Comune di Mantova 1987, 160–179.