SZ-28 bowl
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| Classification: | bowl |
| Archaeological type: | Sanzeno-Schale |
| Material: | pottery |
| Condition: | complete, damaged, restored |
| Date: | 3rd–2nd centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | typology |
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| Site: | Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site] |
| Find date: | June 1906 |
| Current location: | Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository) |
| Inventory Nr.: | 11.940 |
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| Inscription: | SZ-28 (ke) |
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| Sources: | PID: 21 (No. 207b) Schumacher 2004: 138 |
Commentary
Sanzeno bowl.
Fine clay, from light brown to dark brown in colour, with a moderate temper of fine grained sand and cast gold; oxidation/reduction firing; burnished. High neck and the typical omphalos.
In the area of the belly decorations, scratched before firing: Alternating x-shape characters, which are not part of the inscription, and groups of strokes, variantly 9 or 10 strokes.
Outside on the bottom an inscrption.
The find date, June 1906, given by Mancini is uncertain (cp. LIR: 111). Also further find circumstances like exact find place are unknown.
In accord with the typology the bowl can be dated to the 3rd-2nd centuries BC.
Whatmough, in accord with the notes given by Conway and Von Planta, published three inscriptions on potsherds with the No. 207a, No. 207b and No. 207c (cp. PID: 21). The autopsy however has shown that the latter two objects are complete extant Sanzeno bowls. Cp. the related objects in the present data bank: SZ-27 potsherd, SZ-28 bowl as well as SZ-29 bowl.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
Bibliography
| LIR | Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes) |
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