BZ-20 potsherd
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| Classification: | bowl |
| Archaeological type: | bowl with compressed body |
| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | mouth diameter 8.2 cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Archaeological culture: | La Tène |
| Date: | middle of the 5th–1st centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | typology, archaeological context |
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| Site: | Tisens / Tesimo (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Field name: | St. Hippolyt / Sant'Ippolito |
| Archaeological context: | later Iron Age settlement |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 34' 1.20" N, 11° 10' 1.20" E [from site] |
| Find date: | end of the 19th–beginning of the 20th centuries |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Current location: | Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository) |
| Inventory Nr.: | 1.297 |
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| Inscription: | BZ-20 (iiiθ) |
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| Sources: | Kaltenhauser 1966: 143 (No. 309), pl. 37.5 Lunz 1974: 412, pl. 73.16 |
Commentary
Potsherd, part of a bowl.
Bowl with compressed body, long and sharply distinct neck. Fine clay of grey in colour, moderate tempered with very fine calcareous grains and quartz particles; smooth coat of brown in colour, inside as well as outside; reduced firing.
No further decorations.
Outside, sidewise, on the bottom characters (cp. Franz 1959: 229, fig. 3.4).
The present potsherd derives from the later Iron Age settlement on the lynchet in the south of the principal hilltop, discovered by Fridolin Plant and Franz Tappeiner at the end of the 19th century. The excavations were continued by Alois and Oswald Menghin from 1904 to 1909.
Only few bronze objects and a number of fragmentary bowls with compressed S-shaped profile or compressed body belong to the context of the later Iron Age (cp. Lunz 1974: 195–196).
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K.
Bibliography
| Franz 1959 | Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229. |
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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. |
| Gleirscher 1987 | Paul Gleirscher, "Die Kleinfunde von der Hohen Birga bei Birgitz. Ein Beitrag zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur", Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission 68 (1987), 181–351. |
| Kaltenhauser 1966 | Gerard Kaltenhauser, Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Altertümer von St. Hippolyt bei Tisens, Innsbruck: 1966. (2 volumes: text volume and volume of plates; unpublished doctoral research study) |
| Lunz 1974 | Reimo Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit im Südalpenraum, Firenze: Sansoni 1974. |
