WE-5 potsherd

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Object
Classification: bowl
Archaeological type: Sanzeno-Schale
Material: pottery
Condition: damaged, fragmentary

Site: Mellaun / Meluno (fraction of: Brixen / Bressanone, Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 41' 34.80" N, 11° 40' 8.40" E [from site]
Find date:
Current location: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.: 11.554

Inscriptions:

Sources: Franz 1959: 229, fig. 2.4

Commentary

Potsherd of a bowl, Sanzeno type.
Fine clay from brown to black in colour with a moderate temper of fine grained sand; burnished, reduction firing.
On the belly circumferential striae decoration.
Characters at two position: outside on the bottom (WE-5.1) and inside at the rim (WE-5.2).

Bibliography

Franz 1959 Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229.
Gamper 2006 Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006.
Lunz 1974 Reimo Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit im Südalpenraum, Firenze: Sansoni 1974.