WE-5 potsherd

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	bowl with S-shaped profile
Material:	pottery
Condition:	fragmentary
Date:	3rd–2nd centuries BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Mellaun / Meluno (fraction of: Brixen / Bressanone, Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 41' 34.80" N, 11° 40' 8.40" E [from site]
Find date:
Find circumstances:	old finding
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	11.554
Inscriptions:	WE-5.1 (ịθu) WE-5.2 (ui)
Sources:	Franz 1959: 229, fig. 2.4

Commentary

Ceramic fragment.
Potsherd of a bowl with compressed S-shaped profile. Franz states the description "Tongefäßscherben "der Sanzeno-Art"" (cp. Franz 1959: 229).
Fine clay from brown to black in colour with a moderate temper of fine grained sand; burnished, reduction firing. Broken at the mouth rim.
On the belly circumferential striae decoration. The strokes are broad and run at regular interval. Inside, on the bottom likewise a decoration of striae which run radially from the centre of the bottom to the transition to the shoulder. Both decorations incised before firing.
Characters at two position: outside on the bottom (WE-5.1) and inside at the rim (WE-5.2). The characters also before firing.
Find circumstances like exact find place or find year are unknown.
The dating follows the common typology related to bowls with S-shaped profile.
Probably first published in Franz 1959: 229 with a drawing of the bowl.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K.

Bibliography

Franz 1959	Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229.
Gamper 2006	Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006.
Lunz 1974	Reimo Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit im Südalpenraum, Firenze: Sansoni 1974.