SR-8 antler

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	antler
Size:	length 5.5 cm, width min. 1 cm, width max. 1.8 cm, thickness 0.2 cm+
Condition:	fragmentary
Date:	3rd century BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Serso (fraction of: Pergine Valsugana, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Montesei di Serso
Archaeological context:	house No. 2 (Objects: SR-1 antler, SR-2 antler, SR-3 antler, SR-4 antler, SR-5 antler, SR-6 antler, SR-7 antler, SR-8 antler, SR-9 antler, SR-10 antler, SR-11 stone, SR-12 antler, SR-13 antler, SR-14 potsherd, SR-15 bowl)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 4' 28.16" N, 11° 14' 39.44" E
Find date:	1964
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo delle Scienze di Trento
Inscription:	SR-8 (vs·eraus·)
Sources:	Pellegrini & Sebesta 1965: 3–8, 14 (No. 8), fig. 11 Nothdurfter 2002: 1150 (list 3, No. 7)

Images

Object SR-8 antler with inscription SR-8.

Commentary

Antler point; scarcely curved.
Along an inscription from right to left.
Dal Rì dates the whole antler group from Montesei di Serso to the 3rd century BC, whereas Schumacher suggets an older date to the 5th–4th centuries BC (Schumacher 2004: 247) and Pellegrini as well as Sebesta date the house No. 2 of Montesei di Serso, where the antlers were found, generally to the late Iron Age due to the typical house construction (Pellegrini & Sebesta 1965: 7).
To compare by autopsy: condition, fractures (the wider end slivered, the lower side of the wider end)