VN-5 bone

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	bone
Size:	length 12.2 cm
Condition:	complete
Date:	3rd–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Ganglegg
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E
Find date:
Current location:	Vintschger Museum / Museo della Val Venosta
Inscriptions:	VN-5.1 (iiiiθiv) VN-5.2 (?)
Sources:	Gamper & Steiner 1999: 48–51, fig. 24.8

Images

Object VN-5 bone with inscription VN-5.1.

Object VN-5 bone with inscription VN-5.2.

Commentary

Animal bone of a sheep (Ovis orientalis aries) or a goat (Capra aegagrus hircus).
Complete extant, perforated.
Along characters.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).
To control: Schumacher 1994: 309 et seq.; part of the old findings of Pohl and Wieser? approximate find date?

Bibliography

Gamper & Steiner 1999	Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.