VR-3 spit

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Object
Proper name:	Spada di Verona, Spiedo di Ca' dei Cavri
Classification:	spit
Material:	bronze
Size:	length 56 cm
Condition:	incomplete
Date:	beginning of the 4th century BC
Date derived from:	unknown
Site:	Ca' dei Cavri (fraction of: Bussolengo, Verona, Veneto, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 26' 49.20" N, 10° 53' 6.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1672
Current location:	Museo Miniscalchi Erizzo (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	none
Inscription:	VR-3 (taniniutikuremieshiratasuvakhikvelisanes)
Sources:	Gambacurta et al. 2002: 185–186 (cat. No. 19) with fig.

Commentary

Bronze (roasting) spit.
Compare also with two similar objects from Magdalenska gora (Weiss 1999c: 66, fig. 66 a–b) which related to the typology are identical, however they are taller than the spit from Verona. A really identical object however without an inscription is preserved also in Padua (Inv. No. XI-37).
Interpretation according to Salzani (cp. the summary given in Marinetti 1987: 138–139, fn. 5).
Different indications related to the date: 5th century, 6th-5th cneutries BC, beginning of the 4th century BC, 4th century BC (cp. Gambacurta et al. 2002: 185)

S.K.

Bibliography

Baioni et al. 2022	Marco Baioni, Raffaella Poggiani Keller, Anna Marinetti, "Santuari e percorsi cultuali dell'età del Ferro nella Valle del Chiese", in: Raffaele C. de Marinis, Marta Rapi (eds), Preistoria e Protostoria in Lombardia e Canton Ticino [= Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche 72], Firenze: Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria 2022, 765–775.
De Marinis 1988	Raffaele De Marinis, "Le popolazioni alpine di stirpe retica", in: Anna Maria Chieco Bianchi (Ed.), Italia Omnium Terrarum Alumna. La civiltà dei Veneti, Reti, Liguri, Celti, Piceni, Umbri, Latini, Campani e Japigi [= Antica Madre 11], Milano: 1988, 101–130.
Gambacurta et al. 2002	Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), "Catalogo. Veneti antichi. Alfabeti e documenti", in: Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), Akeo. I tempi della scrittura. Veneti antichi: alfabeti e documenti, 157–275.
Marinetti 1987	Anna Marinetti, "L'iscrizione retica (PID 247) da Ca' dei Cavri (Verona)", in: Alessandra Aspes (Ed.), Prima della Storia. Inediti di 10 anni di ricerche a Verona, Verona: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 1987, 131–140.