SZ-2 bronze

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Object
Proper name:	Lo scorpione, Krebs
Classification:	bronze
Material:	bronze
Size:	length: 13.5 cm, width: 3.4 cm, height: 6 mm
Condition:	complete
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Casalini
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1947–1949
Find circumstances:	by chance
Current location:	Castello del Buonconsiglio (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	7671
Inscriptions:	SZ-2.1 (φrima/remi visteχanu) SZ-2.2 (χariχa remi)
Sources:	Roberti 1950: 179 (No. II), pl. I.II

Images

Object SZ-2 bronze with inscription SZ-2.1 - front side.

Object SZ-2 bronze with inscription SZ-2.2 - rear side.

Commentary

Bronze in the shape similar to a scorpion.
In consequence of the forcipate form at one end of the longish bronze Roberti states the proper name Lo scorpione (cp. Roberti 1950: 179), Vetter uses the proper name Krebs (cp. Vetter 1954: 70).
Almost the entire group of bronzes from Sanzeno was discovered between 1947 and 1949. The bronzes were found by chance in a sand pit (cp. Pellegrini 1951: 304; Vetter 1954: 66-67).
Further references: Mayr 1950: 333 (No. II); Pellegrini 1951: 309 (No. 2), fig. 2.a, fig. 2.b; Lejeune 1951: 214, fn. 4 as well as note after fn. 9.

S.K.

Bibliography

Lejeune 1951	Michel Lejeune, "L'Inscription Rétique de Castelcies", Studi Etruschi 21 (1951), 209–214.
Mayr 1950	Karl M. Mayr, "Die Inschriften der Votive von Sanzeno (1)", Der Schlern 24 (1950), 332–336, 407–409.