SZ-24 antler

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	antler
Size:	length 8 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Late Iron Age
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1908
Find circumstances:	construction works
Current location:	Castello del Buonconsiglio (lost)
Inscription:	SZ-24 (]θ̣nasleθua)
Sources:	Mayr 1957c: 426 with fig. Nothdurfter 2002: 1151 [list 3, below No. 8]

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Object SZ-24 antler with inscription SZ-24 given by Mayr (1957).

Object SZ-24 antler with inscription SZ-24 given by Weber (1908).

Commentary

Antler point.
Lengthwise sawed through; the curved upper side is not worked and therefore rough. One side and one end broken; probably at this end perforated (cp. Mayr 1957c: 426).
Along an inscription from right to left.
Mayr explaines that the antler is preserved at the Castello del Buonconsiglio, however already untraceable in his day (cp. Mayr 1957c: 426). Schumacher and Nothdurfter follow the indication by Mayr and note the Castello del Buonconsiglio as repository (cp. Schumacher 2004: 137; Nothdurfter 2002: 1151). However, in the recently released study by Marchesini the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum is indicated, but also that the object is lost (cp. MLR: 214 [MLR 241]). The study and autopsy by the team of the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum have shown that the object is not traceable anymore at the Castello del Buonconsiglio. Therefore the antler probably must be considered as lost.
Due to the fact that the object is probably lost, no autopsy by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum was (yet) possible. Therefore the indications follow the information given in literature (cp. below the bibliography).

S.K.

Bibliography

LIR	Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes)
Mayr 1957c	Karl M. Mayr, "Hirschhornvotiv mit rätischer Inschrift aus Sanzeno am Nonsberg", Der Schlern 31 (1957), 426–427.