AS-12 needle

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Object
Classification:	needle
Material:	bone
Size:	length 11 cm
Condition:	damaged
Date:	3rd–2nd centuries BC
Date derived from:	unknown
Site:	Rotzo (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 51' 43.20" N, 11° 23' 49.20" E [from site]
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Current location:	unknown
Inscription:	AS-12 (?)
Sources:	Orsi 1890: 293 PID: 32–33 (No. 219 i)

Commentary

Bone needle. Longish form and at one end perforated (needle eye).
According to Pellegrini the characters on the bone needle are identical with the characters a ceramic fragment from Rotzo bears (cp. Pellegrini 1915: 121).
Orsi also described another bone needle from Rotzo. This bone needle, length 12 cm, also of a longish form with a needle eye at one end, however does not bear characters (cp. Orsi 1890: 293).
Formerly the bone needle was preserved in the small museum Museo Alpino di Asiago (cp. PID: 32), but the current location was already in the times of Whatmough unknown.

Bibliography

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