VN-7 bone

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	bone
Size:	length about 3.5 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Date:	3rd–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
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:
Current location:	Vintschger Museum Schluderns
Inscriptions:	VN-7.1 (e]θ·ku[) VN-7.2 (]ii θ [?)
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 322, pl. 12.3

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Object VN-7 bone with inscription VN-7.1.

Object VN-7 bone.

Object VN-7 bone with inscription VN-7.2.

Object VN-7 bone.

Commentary

Section of a bone dowel.
Animal bone, not further classified.
Fragmentary, calcined in black.
At the front side an inscription, at the back side characters.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).
To control: Schumacher 1994: 313 et seq.; find date? part of the old findings made by Pohl and Wieser?

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.
Gamper & Steiner 1999	Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.