BZ-1 potsherd

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	bowl with S-shaped profile
Material:	pottery
Size:	outside diameter about 9 cm
Condition:	damaged, fragmentary, restored
Date:	5th–4th centuries BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Tirol / Tirolo (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Hochbühel
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 41' 27.60" N, 11° 9' 14.40" E [from site]
Find date:	1891
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	12.629
Inscription:	BZ-1 (]anu[)
Sources:	Torggler-Wöss 1953: 442, pl. I/4 Franz 1959: 228–229 Lunz 1974: 410, pl. 73,1

Commentary

Fragment of a bowl with compressed S-shaped profile.
Clay with a fine temper of quartz; burnished outside and inside surface of red brown in colour.
At the area of the belly wide and vertical striae.
On the bottom characters.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.

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.
Gleirscher 1985b	Paul Gleirscher, "Zur Entwicklung der Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur", Mitteilungen der österreichischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (MUAG) XXXV (1985), 57–63.
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)
Lunz 1974	Reimo Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit im Südalpenraum, Firenze: Sansoni 1974.
Marzatico 2001b	Franco Marzatico, "La seconda età del Ferro", in: Michele Lanzinger, Franco Marzatico, Annaluisa Pedrotti (Eds), Storia del Trentino. Vol. 1: La preistoria e la protostoria, Bologna: Il Mulino 2001, 479–573.