IT-2 potsherd
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| Classification: | bowl |
| Archaeological type: | Fritzener Schale |
| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | length of the fragment 6.2 cm, rim diameter ca. 17 cm, thickness 0.4 cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Date: | 4th–3rd centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | Volders (Tirol, Austria) |
| Field name: | Himmelreich |
| Archaeological context: | southern circular wall |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 47° 17' 15.37" N, 11° 34' 51.92" E |
| Find date: | 1954 |
| Current location: | Museum Wattens (on exhibition) |
| Inventory Nr.: | W.620 |
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| Inscription: | IT-2 (χaisurus) |
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| Sources: | Kasseroler 1957: 79–81, 102, pl. 42, 2 Franz 1958: 124 |
Images
 Object IT-2 potsherd with inscription IT-2.
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 Object IT-2 potsherd with inscription IT-2.
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Commentary
Fragment of a Fritzener Schale.
The sherd is a burnished fabric of wheel pottery, produced on a slow wheel; medium-fine clay from brown to dark brown in colour, with a moderate temper of fine grained sand and cast gold. Inside, at the fracture the sherd is black in colour. The fragment indicates a reduction firing.
2 cm under the rim four circular lines form an ornament band under them three vertical striae in direction to the bottom of the bowl are visible.
Aside the raetic inscription could be observed.
The potsherd was found at the the raetic settlement Himmelreich. From 1953 to 1955 the here located raetic settlement was investigated by Dr. Alfons Kasseroler. The ceramic fragment was found at the southern side of the circular wall, excavated in 1954. In Kasseroler 1957: 102, the find number M 620 is given.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K.
Bibliography
| Franz 1958 | Leonhard Franz, "Ur- und frühgeschichtliche Funde in Nordtirol. Eine Übersicht von 1947 bis 1957", Der Schlern 32 (1958), 119–128. |
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| Gamper 2006 | Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006. |
| Kasseroler 1957 | Alfons Kasseroler, Die vorgeschichtliche Niederlassung auf dem „Himmelreich“ bei Wattens [= Schlern-Schriften 166], Innsbruck: Wagner 1957. |
