SZ-31 simpulum

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Object
Classification:	simpulum
Material:	bronze
Size:	height: 23.6 cm, height (bowl): 8.8 cm, diameter (bowl): 17.8 cm, thickness (bowl): 0.2 mm, thickness (stem): 9 mm
Condition:	complete
Date:	5th–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Casalini
Archaeological context:	settlement, section I, stratum III
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	autumn 1953
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Castello del Buonconsiglio
Inventory Nr.:	8162
Inscription:	SZ-31 (remina)
Sources:	Fogolari 1960: 286 (No. 73), pl. I.5 Marzatico 1998: 26–29, fig. 8a Oberosler 2004b: 646, fig. 6.5

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Object SZ-31 simpulum.

Object SZ-31 simpulum with inscription SZ-31.

Object SZ-31 simpulum - detail.

Commentary

Bronze simpulum with handle.
Thin sheet bronze.
On the handle an inscription.
The simpulum was found in Sanzeno during the offical excavation of 1953. The object was discovered with other findings in section I, stratum III, of the settlement. The map and the here used number 73 indicates the exact find spot of the simpulum (cp. for the map: Fogolari 1960: pl. A; for the excavation in Sanzeno of 1953 cp. Fogolari 1960: 277–287).
The entire material discovered in Sanzeno dates to the late Iron age period, i.e. from the 5th century BC to the Roman period (cp. Fogolari 1960: 269). Therefore the simpulum must also date to this timeframe.
So far not autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. The indications follow the information given in literature (cp. below the bibliography).

S.K.

Bibliography

Fogolari 1960	Giulia Fogolari, "Sanzeno nell'Anaunia", in: Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Province di Romagna (Eds), Civiltà del Ferro. Studi pubblicati nella ricorrenza centenaria della scoperta di Villanova [= Documenti e studi VI], Bologna: Forni 1960, 265–321.
Marzatico 1998	Franco Marzatico, "Recipienti preromani in lega di rame (bronzo) dal territorio atestino", in: Umberto Raffaelli (Ed.), Rame d'arte. Dalla preistoria al XX secolo nelle Alpi centro-orientali. Catalogo della Mostra tenuta a Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, 20 giugno – 8 novembre 1998, Trento: Provincia autonoma di Trento 1998, 13–36.