WE-6 potsherd

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	Sanzeno-Schale
Material:	pottery
Condition:	fragmentary
Date:	3rd–2nd centuries BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Mellaun / Meluno (fraction of: Brixen / Bressanone, Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 41' 34.80" N, 11° 40' 8.40" E [from site]
Find date:
Find circumstances:	old finding
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	11.556
Inscription:	WE-6 (la)
Sources:	unpublished

Commentary

Ceramic fragment. Bottom of a bowl with omphalos, probably Sanzeno bowl.
Fine clay from brown to black in colour, with a moderate temper of fine grained sand and cast gold.
Stamped decoration in the area of the fracture visible. Decoration before firing.
Characters in the centre of the omphalos and at two positions around the omphalos. Also the characters incised before firing.
Find circumstances like exact find place or find year are unknown.
The dating follows the common typology related to Sanzeno bowls.
The present ceramic fragment is until now unpublished. In the here available data bank about the Raetic inscriptions the potsherd is the first time mentioned.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K.