VN-13 bone

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Object
Classification: bone
Material: bone
Size: length 7.3 cm
Condition: fragmentary
Date: 3rd–1st centuries BC
Date derived from: archaeological context

Site: Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name: Ganglegg
Archaeological context: room 3 at the eastern hillside
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E
Find date: 1997
Find circumstances: excavation (Gamper and Steiner)
Current location: Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici di Bolzano

Inscription: VN-13 (muṇịe)

Sources: Steiner & Gamper 1999: 154–155, fig. 9.12
Schumacher 2004: 323–324, fig. 13.5

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Commentary

Bone of an animal (sheep or goat).
Broken at one side, perforated.
Along an inscription.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).

Bibliography

Gamper 2006 Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006.
Gamper & Steiner 1999 Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.