VR-10 bronze

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Object
Classification:	bronze
Material:	bronze
Size:	length: 10.1 cm, width max.: 1.8 cm, width min.: 1.6 cm, thickness max.: 0.6 cm, thickness min.: 0.3 cm
Condition:	incomplete, restored, damaged
Date:	end of the 2nd–beginning of the 1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	San Giorgio di Valpolicella (fraction of: Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Verona, Veneto, Italy)
Field name:	Casaletti
Archaeological context:	settlement, structure US 37
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 32' 6.00" N, 10° 51' 0.00" E [from site]
Find date:	October 2002
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Soprintendenza Archeologia del Veneto – Nucleo Operativo di Verona (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	IG VR 65197
Inscription:	VR-10 (ieśulat·naχe)
Sources:	Salzani 2003: 95–100 Marinetti 2003: 112 [No. 1], fig. 1.1 Marinetti 2004: 412–414 [No. 1], fig. 2.1

Commentary

Fragmentary bronze.
Halfplastic worked, the front side with a D-cross-section. Patina, from dark green to black, smooth, slightly corroded. Broken at on end. In the right area another fracture, however now restored.
The above-mentioned dimensions result of the autopsy by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. Marchesini indicates: "Lungh 9,8 cm; alt 1,2 cm; spess 0,6 cm" (cp. MLR: 140); the indications given by Marinetti are: "Lungh. cm 10, alt. cm 1,5/2", Marinetti 2003: 112).
On the front side an inscription of which the final part indicates the verb þinaχe; on the back side the symbol .
In the recently released study about the Raetic inscriptions by Marchesini the bronze bronze is listed with "MLR 122", an autopsy was effected (cp. MLR: 140 [MLR 122]).
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2015.

S.K.

Bibliography

Marinetti 2003	Anna Marinetti, "Iscrizioni retiche di San Giorgio Valpolicella (VR)", Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto (QdAV) IXX (2003), 111–117.
Marinetti 2004	Anna Marinetti, "Nuove iscrizioni retiche dall'area veronese", Studi Etruschi 70 (2004), 408–420.