IT-3 potsherd
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| Classification: | vessel |
| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | length 5.5 cm, width 5 cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Archaeological culture: | La Tène C |
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| Site: | Volders (Tirol, Austria) |
| Field name: | Himmelreich |
| Archaeological context: | settlement |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 47° 17' 16.91" N, 11° 34' 43.72" E |
| Find date: | propably 1932–1935 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Current location: | Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository) |
| Inventory Nr.: | 18.22 H 659 |
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| Inscription: | IT-3 (tiva) |
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| Sources: | Sinnhuber 1949: 64–65, pl. XXV, 43 |
Commentary
Ceramic fragment.
Potsherd of a not absolutely determinable vessel, probably a part of the vessel wall. Fine clay, from grey to dark brown in colour, with a moderate temper of fine grained sand and cast gold; reduction firing.
No further decorations visible.
Outside of the sherd characters which were engraved before firing (cp. Sinnhuber 1949: 64). Schumacher however supposes that the characters were engraved after firing (cp. Schumacher 1992: 216). Indeed, the white chalk inlay is caused by Sinnhuber's study and the in this context taken photos (cp. Sinnhuber 1949: 64).
The fragment presents a body sherd from the Raetic settlement Himmelreich. Between 1932 and 1935 the area was investigated by Dr. Stainer and the sherd is probably one of the discoveries made during these not planned excavations.
According to the other discoveries made in Himmelreich the sherd dates to the middle La Tène period. The archaeological finds from Himmelreich indicate a dating to the La Tène period at which the major part derives from the middle La Tène period (see the fibulae from Himmelreich cp. Sinnhuber 1949: 20–22).
According to Schumacher the fragment was first mentioned in Schumacher 1992: 190, and later assumed in the revised edition from 2004 (Schumacher 2004: 190, 216, pl. 5.3, pl. 6.2). The sherd however is already part in Sinnhuber 1949: 64–65, pl. XXV, 43.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K.
