BZ-4 fragment
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| Classification: | vessel |
| Material: | bronze |
| Size: | height 4 cm, diameter max.10.8 cm, diameter min. 6 cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
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| Site: | Bozen / Bolzano (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Field name: | Moritzing / San Maurizio |
| Archaeological context: | hoard (Objects: BZ-4 fragment, BZ-8 situla, BZ-9 handle) |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 30' 14.62" N, 11° 19' 3.00" E |
| Find date: | 1858/60 |
| Current location: | Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Antikensammlung (repository) |
| Inventory Nr.: | Fr. 1810 |
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| Inscription: | BZ-4 (tevaśniχesiutikuθiuθisaχvilititerisnaθi) |
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| Sources: | Mayr 1960c: 126–127 Egg 1992: 156–158, fig. 5,1, pl. 4.2, pl. 8 Steiner 2002: 254–258, 314, pl. 38,4 |
Images
 Object BZ-4 fragment.
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 Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.
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 Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.
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 Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.
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 Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.
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 Object BZ-4 fragment with inscription BZ-4.
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 Object BZ-4 fragment.
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Commentary
Fragment of a bronze vessel.
Patina of medium to dark green in colour, partially embedded particles of ochre to brown in colour.
Seamless worked of thin sheet bronze. Cylindrical basis which passes to a wide expansive and funnel-shaped ‚mouth rim‘. For reinforcement the rim is turned up. Two rivet holes. Broken at two positions of which the crack at one position comprises the entire height of the fragment.
Here partially the narrow part broken. At one position inside along the mouth trace of a sharp-edged cut. Outside of the narrow section traces of abrasion as well as a clear ledge.
Inside along the mouth an inscription.
BZ-4 copy is a cast of this object, see there.
Autopsied by TIR in April 2014.
Discussion about the vessel: part of the feet or the mouth?; cp. Egg 1992; cp. also: Anm.: die Kopie des TLMF wird als Fragment eines Bronzegefäßes mit Stierkopfhenkel aufgeführt, dies trifft jedoch nach Egg 1992 auf das Bronzefragment sh. pl. 4.3 und dessen Beschreibung zu!
Find circumstances: cp. Egg 1992 as well as Steiner 2002
Bibliography
| Egg 1992 | Markus Egg, "Ein eisenzeitlicher Altfund von Schloß Greifenstein bei Siebeneich in Südtirol", in: Andreas Lippert, Konrad Spindler (Eds), Festschrift zum 50jährigen Bestehen des Institutes für Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck [= Universitätsforschungen zur prähistorischen Archäologie 8], Bonn: 1992, 135–172. |
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