WE-3 antler

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Object
Classification:	handle
Material:	antler
Size:	length 10.6 cm, width 2.3 cm, height 2.2 cm
Condition:	damaged
Date:	5th–4th centuries BC
Date derived from:	unknown
Site:	Brixen / Bressanone (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Stufels
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 43' 1.20" N, 11° 39' 28.80" E [from site]
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Current location:	Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Ufficio Beni archeologici Bolzano (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	St. 6992
Inscription:	WE-3 (lastasieluku/piθamnuale)
Sources:	Dal Rì 1987: 178 (No. 731), fig. 305 Nothdurfter 2002: 1147 (list 2, No. 2), fig. 1,7

Images

Object WE-3 antler with inscription WE-3 - line 2.

Object WE-3 antler with inscription WE-3 - line 1.

Object WE-3 antler.

Commentary

Deer antler (Cervus elaphus), most probably a handle.
Surface facetted and abraded, on both sides cut, one side holed.
Along an inscription.
For the reading of the inscription and the meaning of raetic eluku see: Rix 1998: 22–23.

Bibliography

Dal Rì 1987	Lorenzo Dal Rì, "Influssi etrusco-italici nella regione retico-alpina", in: Raffaele De Marinis (Ed.), Gli Etruschi a nord del Po, Mantova: Regione Lombardia - Provincia e Comune di Mantova 1987, 160–179.