SZ-18 key

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Object
Classification:	key
Material:	bronze
Size:	length 21.4 cm, thickness about 1.0 cm
Condition:	complete
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:
Find circumstances:	old finding
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	13.464
Inscription:	SZ-18 (χevisianaθi)
Sources:	Zemmer-Plank et al. 1985: 166 (Kat.–Nr. 43)

Images

Object SZ-18 key with inscription SZ-18.

Sign on the squared end of SZ-18 key - a quarter of a turn above inscription SZ-18.

Commentary

Bronze rod, probably a key.
Round cross section. One side ends in ring form. The other side beat out in tetragonal shape.
Sidewise an inscription.
According to Whatmough the object was bought in Bozen / Bolzano (cp. PID: 17); Mancini however inidcates the 5th February 1901 as exact find date (cp. LIR: 92). In all probability the object represents an old finding from Sanzeno.
Autopsied by TIR in November 2013.

Bibliography

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)