VR-16 bone
From Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum
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| Classification: | unidentifiable |
| Material: | bone |
| Size: | length: 7.9 cm, width max.: 1.5 cm, width min.: 1.4 cm |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
| Date: | end of the 2nd–beginning of the 1st centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | San Giorgio di Valpolicella (fraction of: Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Verona, Veneto, Italy) |
| Field name: | Casaletti |
| Archaeological context: | settlement, structure US 75 |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 32' 6.00" N, 10° 51' 0.00" E [from site] |
| Find date: | 2002 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Current location: | Soprintendenza Archeologia del Veneto – Nucleo Operativo di Verona (repository) |
| Inventory Nr.: | IG VR 65201 |
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| Inscription: | VR-16 (inn) |
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| Sources: | Salzani 2003: 95–100 Marinetti 2003: 114 [No. 7], fig. 1.7 Marinetti 2004: 415 [No. 7], fig. 2.7 |
Commentary
Animal bone; classified as bone of a pig ("Sus scrofa"; cp. Marinetti 2003: 114; Marinetti 2004: 415).
On one side characters.
In the recently released study about the Raetic inscriptions by Marchesini the bone is listed with "MLR 126", an autopsy was effected (cp. MLR: 142 [MLR 126]).
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2015.
Bibliography
| Marinetti 2003 | Anna Marinetti, "Iscrizioni retiche di San Giorgio Valpolicella (VR)", Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV) IXX (2003), 111–117. |
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| Marinetti 2004 | Anna Marinetti, "Nuove iscrizioni retiche dall'area veronese", Studi Etruschi 70 (2004), 408–420. |
