VR-14 bone
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Classification: | unidentifiable |
Material: | bone |
Size: | length: 8.3 cm, width max.: 2 cm, width min.: 1.3 cm, thickness: about 1 cm |
Condition: | complete |
Date: | end of the 2nd–beginning of the 1st centuries BC |
Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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Site: | San Giorgio di Valpolicella (fraction of: Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Verona, Veneto, Italy) |
Field name: | Casaletti |
Archaeological context: | settlement, structure US 75 |
Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 32' 6.00" N, 10° 51' 0.00" E [from site] |
Find date: | 2002 |
Find circumstances: | excavation |
Current location: | Soprintendenza Archeologia del Veneto – Nucleo Operativo di Verona (repository) |
Inventory Nr.: | IG VR 65198 |
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Inscription: | VR-14 (ḷav·̣ṣ́a) |
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Sources: | Salzani 2003: 95–100 Marinetti 2003: 114 [No. 5], fig. 1.5 Marinetti 2004: 415 [No. 5], fig. 2.5 |
Commentary
Animal bone; classified as bone of a pig ("Sus scrofa"; cp. Marinetti 2003: 114; Marinetti 2004: 415).
On one side an inscription.
In the recently released study about the Raetic inscriptions by Marchesini the bone is listed with "MLR 124", an autopsy was effected (cp. MLR: 141 [MLR 124]).
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2015.
Bibliography
Marinetti 2003 | Anna Marinetti, "Iscrizioni retiche di San Giorgio Valpolicella (VR)", Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV) IXX (2003), 111–117. |
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Marinetti 2004 | Anna Marinetti, "Nuove iscrizioni retiche dall'area veronese", Studi Etruschi 70 (2004), 408–420. |