VN-8 bone

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Object
Classification: bone
Material: bone
Size: length 13.5 cm
Condition: complete
Date: 5th–1st centuries BC
Date derived from: archaeological context

Site: Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name: Ganglegg
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E
Find date: 1993
Find circumstances: stray find
Current location: Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici di Bolzano

Inscription: VN-8 (χarisθu)

Sources: Schumacher 2004: 322, 360 fig. 12.4
Schumacher 1994b: 296–297, fig. 1

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Commentary

Bone of an animal, no further classified. Complete and light brown in colour.
Due to a missing archaeological context there is no exact date. But obviously the bone, because of the inscription at the narrow side, sidewise the centre, dates to the Fritzens-Sanzeno Culture.

Bibliography

Gamper 2006 Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006.
Gamper & Steiner 1999 Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.