TR-3 bone

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Object
Classification: unidentifiable
Material: bone
Size: length: 8.1 cm, width: 1.4 cm, height: 2.1 cm
Condition: fragmentary
Date: end of the 2nd–beginning of the 1st centuries BC

Site: Trissino (Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Archaeological context: cemetery
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 33' 54.00" N, 11° 22' 26.40" E [from site]
Find date: 1983
Find circumstances: excavation
Current location: Museo Naturalistico Archeologico di Vicenza
Inventory Nr.: 197524

Inscription: TR-3 (p̣ịθ̣ị)

Sources: Mancini 1995: 147–148 (No. 3.3) with fig.
Schumacher 2004: 321, pl. 11.3

Commentary

Bone of domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica or Sus domesticus).
According to Ruta Serafini, related to the entire bone group from Trissino it can be stated "che si tratta di un insieme di oggetti da connettere con pratiche oracolari, molto probabilmente quindi di sortes" (cp. Ruta Serafini in Mancini 1995: 146).

S.K.

Bibliography

Mancini 1995 Alberto Mancini, "Nuove Iscrizioni Retiche", Quaderni del Dipartimento di Linguistica - Università di Firenze 6 (1995), 137–153.