ST rock

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Object
Classification:	rock
Material:	limestone
Size:	height 4 m, width 3 m
Condition:	damaged
Site:	Brandenberg (Tirol, Austria)
Field name:	Schneidjoch, Wildalm
Coordinates (approx.):	47° 34' 11.00" N, 11° 47' 32.00" E
Find date:	1957
Find circumstances:	by chance
Current location:	in situ
Inscriptions:	ST-1 (kastriesieθunnuale) ST-2 (pitauṇesikaszrinụalet[) ST-3 (esimnesikaszrinuaḷ[?) ST-4 (ạzile$aθiṿ·nuale) ST-5 (hes·ṭulanu·aleker·akve) ST-6 (sạ?al·̣esta·nu·aleφakaḷẹ) ST-7 (?) ST-8 (arisae·ki) ST-9 (–)
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 191, 219–220

Commentary

Further references more related to the inscriptions: Vetter 1957; Prosdocimi 1971. The inscriptions date to the La Tène period.
The find place is located in the Steinberg / Achensee region which is part of the Northern Limestone Alps. This mountain range is made of lighter and more porous rock at which the major component is limestone. Additionally dolomite, marl, sandstone or comparable components appear.

S.K.

Bibliography

Gleirscher 1991	Paul Gleirscher, Die Räter, Chur: Rätisches Museum 1991.
Kusch 2000	Heinrich Kusch, "Zur Halbhöhle (Kat.Nr. 1262/6, iBA-704) und einem neuen Felsbildfundplatz am Schneidjoch, Steinberg in Tirol, Austria", in: Manfred Hainzmann (ed.), VOTIS XX SOLVTIS. Jubiläumsschrift der Archäologischen Gesellschaft Steiermark, Graz: Academic Publishers 2000. (= AGST Nachrichtenblatt 1–2 [1999]), 199–208.
Mandl 2011	Franz Mandl, Felsbilder. Österreich – Bayern: Nördliche Kalkalpen [= Anisa – Verein für alpine Forschung 4], Haus im Ennstal: 2011.