MA-18 antler

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Object
Classification:	antler
Material:	antler
Size:	length 12 cm
Condition:	complete, damaged
Archaeological culture:	Este IV
Date:	beginning of the 4th century BC
Date derived from:	palaeography
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. 58814
Inscription:	MA-18 (knusesusinu)
Sources:	Pellegrini 1918: 182 (No. 8), fig. 15 Nothdurfter 2002: 1149 (list 3, No. 5)

Commentary

Antler point, complete but broken in three pieces. In the area of the fracture slivered. On the narrow end perforated. Most of the back side is sawed through. Beginning in the area of the wider part down to the centre an inscription from left to right.

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.
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.