BZ-22 potsherd

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Material:	pottery
Condition:	fragmentary
Date:	middle of the 5th–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Tisens / Tesimo (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	St. Hippolyt / Sant'Ippolito
Archaeological context:	later Iron Age settlement
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 34' 49.91" N, 11° 9' 41.44" E
Find date:	end of the 19th–beginning of the 20th centuries
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	15.550
Inscription:	BZ-22 (?]θ[)
Sources:	Kaltenhauser 1966: 143 (No. 310), pl. 37.6

Commentary

Potsherd, part of a bowl.
Slightly curved sherd which derives probably from a small bowl with a compressed body (cp. BZ-20 potsherd, BZ-21 potsherd). Fine clay of grey in colour with a moderate temper of very fine calcareous grains and quartz particles; smooth coat of brown in colour, inside as well as outside; reduced firing.
No further decorations visible.
On the sherd characters which are to compare with BZ-20 as well as BZ-21, characters scratched after firing.
The present potsherd derives from the later Iron Age settlement on the lynchet in the south of the principal hilltop, discovered by Fridolin Plant and Franz Tappeiner at the end of the 19th century. The excavations were continued by Alois and Oswald Menghin from 1904 to 1909.
Only few bronze objects and a number of fragmentary bowls with compressed S-shaped profile or compressed body belong to the context of the later Iron Age (cp. Lunz 1974: 195–196).
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in July 2014.
S.K.

Bibliography

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 (2 volumes: text volume and volume of plates; unpublished doctoral research study)
Lunz 1974	Reimo Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit im Südalpenraum, Firenze: Sansoni 1974.