AS-22 beaker

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Object
Classification:	beaker
Archaeological type:	bicchiere carenato
Material:	pottery
Size:	height: 9.5 cm, diameter foot: 5.3 cm, diameter mouth: 10.4 cm
Condition:	complete, restored, damaged
Date:	end of the 4th-3rd centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Rotzo (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Field name:	Bostel
Archaeological context:	settlement, structure C1
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 51' 43.20" N, 11° 23' 49.20" E [from site]
Find date:	2003 or 2004
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo Archeologico dell'Altopiano dei Sette Comuni (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	unknown
Inscriptions:	AS-22.1 (śṿ) AS-22.2 (]ṿ) AS-22.3 (ṣ́ṿ)
Sources:	unpublished

Commentary

Ceramic beaker. "Bicchiere carenato a corpo allungato e piede ad anello" (cp. Leonardi & Ruta Serafini 1981: 20).
Different ceramic fragments recomposed and restored with modern pieces.
At three positions, twice on the vessel bottom and once on the foot, characters which can be considered workman's marks (cp. AS-22.1, AS-22.2, AS-22.3).
Find year: 2003 or 2004.
Place of finding: Bostel, settlement, probably structure C1. Number of finding: 14/3 s.f. Inventory number: Pending and/or on-site not (anymore) possible.
The present ceramic vessel is not previously published.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in October 2014.

S.K.

Bibliography

Leonardi & Ruta Serafini 1981	Giovanni Leonardi, Angela Ruta Serafini, "L'abitato protostorico di Rotzo (Altipiano di Asiago)", Preistoria Alpina 17 (1981), 7–75.