VN-2 bone
From Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum
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| Classification: | unidentifiable |
| Material: | bone |
| Size: | length 3.5 cm, width 1.1. cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Date: | 3rd–1st centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Field name: | Ganglegg |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E |
| Find date: | probably between 1989 and 1992 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation (Pohl and Wieser) |
| Current location: | Vintschger Museum Schluderns |
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| Inscription: | VN-2 (ụ]mep[) |
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| Sources: | Schubert 1992: 446, fig. 4.1 Schumacher 2004: 177, 208, pl. 3.1 |
Images
Commentary
Bone plate.
Animal bone, not further classified. Calcined.
Along an inscription.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone plate dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).
Until 1992 in private property of Karl Pohl. The current location however is Vintschger Museum Schluderns.
Bibliography
| Gamper 2006 | Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006. |
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| Gamper & Steiner 1999 | Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999. |
