VN-6 bone

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Object
Classification:	bone
Material:	bone
Size:	length 11.2 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Date:	3rd–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Ganglegg
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E
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Current location:	Vintschger Museum Schluderns
Inscription:	VN-6 (iiiiθiv)
Sources:	Gamper & Steiner 1999: 48–49, fig. 24.10

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Object VN-6 bone with inscription VN-6.

Object VN-6 bone.

Object VN-6 bone - detail.

Commentary

Bone of an animal (sheep or goat).
At one end broken, perforated.
Along characters.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).
To control: Schumacher 1994: 310 et seq.

Bibliography

Gamper & Steiner 1999	Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.