PA-1 spatula
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| Proper name: | Paletta di Padova |
| Classification: | spatula |
| Material: | bronze |
| Size: | length: 27.7 cm, width: 9.2 cm, thickness: 1.2 mm, thickness (stem): 6 mm |
| Condition: | complete |
| Date: | 6th–5th centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | typology |
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| Site: | Padova (Padova, Veneto, Italy) |
| Field name: | courtyard of the convent Sant'Antonio |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 24' 2.84" N, 11° 52' 51.06" E |
| Find date: | 1899 |
| Find circumstances: | stray find |
| Current location: | Museo Archeologico di Padova (on exhibition) |
| Inventory Nr.: | XIX-90 |
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| Inscription: | PA-1 (eθsualeuθikukaial·/nakinaθarisakvil·) |
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| Sources: | Tombolani 1976: 196–197 (No. 33), pl. 36 A (recto) Gregnanin 2000: 157–159, fig. 277a (recto), fig. 277b (verso) |
Commentary
Bronze ritual spatula.
Cast.
The decoration on the front side, representing a horse, chiseled.
On the back side an inscription at the margin on the left as well as on the right and characters in the form of an asterisk and a caporale at the lower area of the handle.
The decoration indicates a date to the turn from type A to type B at which the type B dates to the 6th–5th centuries BC. The ritual spatula can be classified into the tipo venetico B according the typology by Zuffa. Il tipo venetico B corresponds to the 6th-5th centuries BC (cp. Gambacurta et al. 2002: 186-187 (cat. No. 20) with fig.).
Bibliography
| Gambacurta et al. 2002 | Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), "Catalogo. Veneti antichi. Alfabeti e documenti", in: Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), Akeo. I tempi della scrittura. Veneti antichi: alfabeti e documenti, 157–275. |
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| Gregnanin 2000 | Rossana Gregnanin, "Catalogo. Sezione V. Instrumenta. Palette, n. 276–282", in: Girolamo Zampieri, Beniamino Lavarone, Bronzi Antichi del Museo Archeologico di Padova. Statuette figurate egizie, etrusche, venetiche e italiche, armi preromane, romane e medioevali, gioielli e oggetti di ornamento, instrumentum domesticum dal deposito del museo, Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider 2000, 157–161. |
