SZ-29 bowl
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| Classification: | bowl |
| Archaeological type: | Sanzeno-Schale |
| Material: | pottery |
| Condition: | complete, damaged, restored |
| Date: | 3rd–2nd centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | typology |
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| Site: | Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site] |
| Find date: | 22.05.1901 |
| Find circumstances: | old finding |
| Current location: | Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository) |
| Inventory Nr.: | 11.947 |
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| Inscription: | SZ-29 (θkθθ) |
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| Sources: | PID: 21 (No. 207c) Schumacher 2004: 138 |
Images
 Object SZ-29 bowl with inscription SZ-29.
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Commentary
Sanzeno bowl.
Fine clay, light brown in colour, with a moderate temper of fine grained sand and argentine mica; reduction firing; burnished. High neck and the typical omphalos.
In the area of the belly decorations, scratched before firing: four times a group of strokes each with a different number of strokes, alternating between five and eight strokes.
Outside on the lower belly area to the bottom an inscription.
The find date, 22.05.1901, is given by Mancini (cp. LIR: 141; the information reminds of the find date of SZ-52 bowl, SZ-54 bowl, SZ-59 bowl, SZ-60 bowl, SZ-61 bowl as well as SZ-83 bowl given also by Mancini, cp. LIR: 110 [No. SA-49], LIR: 130 [No. SA-79], LIR: 103 [No. SA-40], LIR: 106 [No. SA-43], LIR: 113 [No. SA-53] and LIR: 141 [No. SA-100]). Further find circumstances like exact find place are unknown. Only Mancini indicates the 22th may of 1901 as find date. Related to the find spot Sanzeno it is known that there a two-day excavation directed by Franz von Wieser took place in the spring of this year (cp. Von Merhart 1926: 71–72). The objects found during this excavation were then brought to the Tyrolean State Museum (cp. Von Merhart 1926: 72; moreover von Merhart states here that the major part of all the findings made in Sanzeno between 1898 and 1914 was acquired by von Wieser for the Tyrolean State Museum). Connecting both information, in all probability the object comes from the excavation directed by von Wieser.
In accord with the typology the bowl can be dated to the 3rd–2nd centuries BC.
Whatmough, in accord with the notes given by Conway and Von Planta, published three inscriptions on potsherds with the No. 207a, No. 207b and No. 207c (cp. PID: 21). In actual fact however the latter two objects are complete extant Sanzeno bowls. In consequence of this misinformation Mancini publishes the same inscription twice: Once in accord with the the notes given by Whatmough (cp. LIR: 132, No. SA-81; in this context Mancini notes that during "una mia visita al Ferdinandeum dell'estate del 1972 non potei osservare il frammento perché introvabile".) and once again with the No. SA-101 according to his autopsy of the object during a visit of the Tyrolean State Museum (cp. LIR: 141, No. SA-101). The study and autopsy by the team of the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum have shown that the potsherds with inscription published by Whatmough with the No. 207b and No. 207c are complete extant Sanzeno bowls. Therefore following concordance arises as a result: SZ-27 potsherd = PID: No. 207a = LIR: SA-58; SZ-28 bowl = PID: No. 207b = LIR: SA-50a = LIR: SA-50b; SZ-29 bowl = PID: No. 207c = LIR: SA-81 = LIR: SA-101. Cp. also the related objects in the present data bank: SZ-27 potsherd, SZ-28 bowl as well as SZ-29 bowl.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K. with additional information by C.S.
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) |
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