VN-13 bone

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	bone
Size:	length: 7.3 cm, width: 2.2 cm, height: 1.5 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Date:	3rd–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Ganglegg
Archaeological context:	settlement, room 3 at the eastern hillside
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E
Find date:	1997
Find circumstances:	excavation (Gamper and Steiner)
Current location:	Vintschger Museum / Museo della Val Venosta (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	G 97.844
Inscription:	VN-13 (muṇịe)
Sources:	Steiner & Gamper 1999: 154–155, fig. 9.12 Schumacher 2004: 323–324, fig. 13.5 Gamper 2006: 158, fig. 87.8

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Object VN-13 bone with inscription VN-13.

Object VN-13 bone with inscription VN-13.

Commentary

Animal bone of a sheep (Ovis orientalis aries) or a goat (Capra aegagrus hircus).
Broken at one side, perforated.
Along an inscription.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).

S.K.

Bibliography

Gamper 2006	Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006.
Gamper & Steiner 1999	Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.