MA-2 antler
From Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum
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| Classification: | antler |
| Material: | antler |
| Size: | length 7.5 cm, width 2.9 cm, thickness 0.8 cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Archaeological culture: | Este IV |
| Date: | beginning 4th century BC |
| Date derived from: | palaeography |
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| Site: | Magrè (fraction of: Schio, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy) |
| Field name: | Colle del Castello |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 42' 21.60" N, 11° 20' 52.80" E [from site] |
| Find date: | 1912 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Current location: | Museo Nazionale Atestino |
| Inventory Nr.: | I.G. 58811 |
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| Inscription: | MA-2 (piθanmelka[θ̣ụṛịẹþ̣ụ) |
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| Sources: | Pellegrini 1918: 185 (No. 13), fig. 20 Nothdurfter 2002: 1148 (list 3, No. 5) |
Commentary
Fragment of an antler point. The fragment fits to MA-3 antler like the figure indicates (Pellegrini 1918: 185, fig. 20). The whole object is broken in three sections and now it is fragmentary, at which the present object is the larger one.
Bibliography
| Gambacurta 2002b | Giovanna Gambacurta, "Manufatti iscritti in osso o corno", 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, 121–126. |
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| 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. |
