VR-9 potsherd
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| Classification: | vessel |
| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | width: 6.8 cm, height: 4.3 cm, thickness max.: 1.5 cm, thickness min.: 1.2 cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Date: | 4th–3rd centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | Montorio Veronese (fraction of: Verona, Verona, Veneto, Italy) |
| Field name: | Castello di Montorio Veronese |
| Archaeological context: | settlement (Objects: VR-6 antler, VR-7 bone, VR-8 bone, VR-9 potsherd) |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 27' 22.07" N, 11° 3' 9.29" E |
| Find date: | 1998 |
| Find circumstances: | survey |
| Current location: | Soprintendenza Archeologia del Veneto – Nucleo Operativo di Verona (repository) |
| Inventory Nr.: | none |
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| Inscription: | VR-9 (]????[) |
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| Sources: | Marinetti 2000: 74–75 [No. 1] Marinetti 2004: 409 |
Commentary
Ceramic fragment.
Body sherd of a large vessel. Clay grey in colour.
The above-mentioned dimensions result of the autopsy by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. Marinetti indicates: "dimensioni cm 7.5 x 4,5" (cp. Marinetti 2000: 74).
Remains of an inscription.
The archaeological finds VR-6 antler, VR-7 bone, VR-8 bone and the present ceramic fragment were picked up during an archaeological survey on the hill of the Castello di Montorio, near to Verona, in 1998 (cp. Marinetti 2004: 409; moreover: MLR: 257).
The discoveries which all can be put into a context of residential structure, indicate an "ampio arco cronologico (dal V secolo all’età imperiale)"; a Raetic presence however can be determined for the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. For more details see Marinetti 2004: 409 or MLR: 257.
The ceramic fragment was first published by Marinetti, however with particular and exclusive regard to the characters (cp. Marinetti 2000: 74–75 [No. 1]). In 2004 Marinetti mentioned the sherd another time: "I reperti iscritti sono un frammento ceramico con segni (...), un frammento di corno e due ossicini (...)" (cp. Marinetti 2004: 409) whereas this study was exclusively focused on the antler as well as the two bones (cp. VR-7 bone, VR-8 bone) and the inscriptions.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2015.
Bibliography
| Marinetti 2000 | Anna Marinetti, "Le iscrizioni sui materiali da Montorio (Verona)", Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV) XVI (2000), 74–77. |
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| Marinetti 2004 | Anna Marinetti, "Nuove iscrizioni retiche dall'area veronese", Studi Etruschi 70 (2004), 408–420. |
