SZ-63 antler

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Object
Classification:	handle
Material:	bone
Size:	length 8.2 cm, width min. 1.9 cm, width max. 2.3 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	13.533
Inscriptions:	SZ-63.1 (iiṿ) SZ-63.2 (a)
Sources:	Nothdurfter 2002: 1150 (list 3, No. 8)

Images

Object SZ-63 antler with inscriptions SZ-63.1 and SZ-63.2.

Commentary

Fragment of an animal bone or antler fragment; in all probability handle of a knife or a tool.
Whitish in colour. Round cross section, both ends rounded. At the narrow end sawed-trough a little. In the wider area slivered.
Along a decoration in form of dice eyes.
On the wider end characters, on the narrow end a single character.
Doubts in matters of the material. The literature, e.g. Nothdurfter indicates the two possibilities: antler or bone (cp. Nothdurfter 2002: 1150). The museum however describes the object as made of bone.
Further find circumstances unknown.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.

Bibliography

Fogolari 1960	Giulia Fogolari, "Sanzeno nell'Anaunia", in: Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Province di Romagna (Eds), Civiltà del Ferro. Studi pubblicati nella ricorrenza centenaria della scoperta di Villanova [= Documenti e studi VI], Bologna: Forni 1960, 265–321.
IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
LIR	Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes)