TR-1 bone

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	bone
Size:	length: 7.9 cm, width: 1.6 cm, height: 2.1 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Date:	end of the 2nd–beginning of the 1st centuries BC
Site:	Trissino (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Archaeological context:	cemetery
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 33' 54.00" N, 11° 22' 26.40" E [from site]
Find date:	1983
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo Naturalistico Archeologico di Vicenza (repository)
Inscriptions:	TR-1.1 (esiau) TR-1.2 (?)
Sources:	Museo Ritrovato 1986: 46 [A36] with photo Mancini 1995: 146–147 [No. 3.1] with fig.

Commentary

Bone of domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica or Sus domesticus).
According to Ruta Serafini, related to the entire bone group from Trissino it can be stated "che si tratta di un insieme di oggetti da connettere con pratiche oracolari, molto probabilmente quindi di sortes" (cp. Ruta Serafini in Mancini 1995: 146).
Note: inventory number not assured (so far: 197522)

S.K.

Bibliography

Mancini 1995	Alberto Mancini, "Nuove Iscrizioni Retiche", Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica - Università di Firenze 6 (1995), 137–153.