WE-3 antler

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Object
Classification:	handle
Material:	antler
Size:	length 10.6 cm, width 2.3 cm, height 2.2 cm
Condition:	damaged
Date:	5th–4th centuries BC
Date derived from:	unknown
Site:	Brixen / Bressanone (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Stufels
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 43' 1.20" N, 11° 39' 28.80" E [from site]
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Current location:	Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Ufficio Beni archeologici Bolzano
Inventory Nr.:	St. 6992
Inscription:	WE-3 (lastasieluku/piθamnuale)
Sources:	Dal Rì 1987: 178 (No. 731), fig. 305 Nothdurfter 2002: 1147 (list 2, No. 2), fig. 1,7

Images

Object WE-3 antler with inscription WE-3 - line 2.

Object WE-3 antler with inscription WE-3 - line 1.

Object WE-3 antler.

Commentary

Grip of a deer antler (Cervus elaphus).
Surface facetted and abraded, on both sides cut, one side holed.
Along an inscription.
For the reading of the inscription and the meaning of raetic eluku see: Rix 1998: 22–23.

Bibliography

Dal Rì 1987	Lorenzo Dal Rì, "Influssi etrusco-italici nella regione retico-alpina", in: Raffaele De Marinis (Ed.), Gli Etruschi a nord del Po, Mantova: Regione Lombardia - Provincia e Comune di Mantova 1987, 160–179.