NO-2 strainer

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Object
Classification:	sieve funnel"sieve funnel" is not in the list (rock, slab, stone, antler, tusk, bone, horn, fibula, ring, helmet, ...) of allowed values for the "type object" property.
Material:	bronze
Size:	outside diameter 10.3 cm, inside diameter 8.9 cm
Condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Date:	1st century BC–1st century AC
Date derived from:	unknown
Site:	Cles (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 22' 1.20" N, 11° 1' 58.80" E [from site]
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Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	17.064
Inscription:	NO-2 (tianusataṇ)
Sources:	Mayr 1960f: 389 Zemmer-Plank et al. 1985: 166 (cat. No.40)

Commentary

Fragment of a bronze sieve funnel with handle.
Fragmentary and moreover partially damaged.
Decorations in form of palmettes and dice eyes on the handle and in part on the rim.
An inscription outside, below the flanged edge.
The object has come in the property of the museum 1898 and was rediscovered by Leonard Franz, the curator at the museum at that time, amongst the old stock of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum.
The date is indicated by Schumacher in consequence of an oral information by Gleirscher (cp. Schumacher 2004: 248).
The object was first published in Franz 1958b. In succession of Franz, Mayr has mentioned it for a second time (cp. Mayr 1960f: 389).
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K.

Bibliography

Franz 1958b	Leonhard Franz, "Eine Inschrift aus Cles", Der Schlern 32 (1958), 39–40.