SZ-60 bowl

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	Sanzeno-Schale
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 6.1 cm, mouth diameter 8.8 cm
Condition:	complete, damaged, restored
Date:	3rd–2nd centuries BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	22.05.1901
Find circumstances:	old finding
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	11.937
Inscriptions:	SZ-60.1 (ịạ) SZ-60.2 (la) SZ-60.3 (ụị)
Sources:	Zemmer-Plank et al. 1985: 166 (cat. No. 38)

Commentary

Sanzeno bowl.
Fine clay, light brown in colour. Moderate tempered of fine grained sand and argentine mica; reduction firing; burnished. High neck with widely extended mouth rim; highly compressed body and the typical omphalos. Restored by inserting a modern piece in the upper area of the neck
Between neck and belly a circumferential ribbon decoration. Below, in the belly area groups of vertical comb impressions. Decorations before firing.
Outside, on the transition from the belly to the bottom, at three positions characters (cp. SZ-60.1, SZ-60.2 as well as SZ-60.3).
The find date, 22.05.1901, given by Mancini is uncertain (cp. LIR: 106; the information reminds of the find date of SZ-29 bowl, SZ-52 bowl, SZ-54 bowl, SZ-59 bowl as well as SZ-83 bowl given also by Mancini, cp. LIR: 141 [No. SA-101] resp. LIR: 132 [No. SA-81], LIR: 110 [No. SA-49], LIR: 130 [No. SA-79], LIR: 103 [No. SA-40] and LIR: 141 [No. SA-100]). 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. Zemmer-Plank specifies the dating of the bowl to about 250–120 BC (cp. Zemmer-Plank et al. 1985: 166), therefore to the Middle La Tène period or La Tène C.
Probably first published in IR: 280 (No. 59), however with particular regards to the characters.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.

Bibliography

IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
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)