IT-3 potsherd
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| Classification: | vessel |
| Material: | pottery |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Archaeological culture: | La Tène C, La Tène D |
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| Site: | Volders (Tirol, Austria) |
| Field name: | Himmelreich |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 47° 17' 15.37" N, 11° 34' 51.92" E |
| Find date: | propably 1932–1935 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Current location: | Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository) |
| Inventory Nr.: | 18.22 H 659 |
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| Inscription: | IT-3 (tiva) |
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| Sources: | Sinnhuber 1949: 64–65, pl. XXV, 43 |
Commentary
Potsherd.
Fine clay, from grey to dark brown in colour, with a moderate temper of fine grained sand and cast gold; reduction firing.
No further decorations visible.
On the outside of the sherd characters which were engraved before firing (cp. Sinnhuber 1949: 64. Schumacher however supposes that the characters were engraved after firing (cp. Schumacher 1992: 216).
The fragment presents a body sherd from the Raetic settlement Himmelreich. Between 1932 and 1935 the area was investigated by Dr. Stainer and the sherd is probably one of the discoveries made during these not planned excavations.
According to Schumacher the fragment was first mentioned in Schumacher 1992: 190, and later assumed in the revised edition from 2004 (Schumacher 2004: 190, 216, pl. 5.3, pl. 6.2). The sherd however is already part in Sinnhuber 1949: 64–65, pl. XXV, 43.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
