PU-1 girdle plate
From Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum
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| Proper name: | Gürtelblech von Lothen |
| Classification: | belt plaque |
| Material: | bronze |
| Size: | length 35 cm, width 12 cm, thickness 0.07 cm |
| Condition: | complete |
| Date: | beginning of the 5th century BC |
| Date derived from: | typology |
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| Site: | Lothen / Campolino (fraction of: St. Lorenzen / San Lorenzo di Sebato, Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Field name: | Burgkofel |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 47' 34.80" N, 11° 53' 13.20" E [from site] |
| Find date: | 1948 |
| Current location: | Museo Civico di Bolzano |
| Inventory Nr.: | 2168 |
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| Inscription: | PU-1 (χa?φelzurieskalahepruśiahil(?)/klu?θurus) |
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| Sources: | Lunz 1981b: 201, fig. 86 Dal Rì 1987: 177–178 (No. 730), fig. 304 Morandi 1999: 49-51 (No. 7) |
Images
 Object PU-1 girdle plate - front side.
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 Object PU-1 girdle plate with inscription PU-1 - rear side.
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Commentary
Bronze belt plaque, complete, with figural decorations.
The central scene composed by two deers. The deer on the right end with large antlers looks downwards, probably browsing. Around the central scene a frame made of fine grooves.
On the back side an inscription.
Due to the figural decoration working which is adapted to the typology of the Situlae the belt plaque of Lothen date to the 5th century BC.
Bibliography
| Dal Rì 1987 | Lorenzo Dal Rì, "Influssi etrusco-italici nella regione retico-alpina", in: Raffaele De Marinis (Ed.), Gli Etruschi a nord del Po, Mantova: Regione Lombardia - Provincia e Comune di Mantova 1987, 160–179. |
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| Lunz 1973b | Reimo Lunz, Ur- und Frühgeschichte Südtirols. Rätsel und Deutung, Bozen: Verlagsanstalt Athesia 1973. |
| Lunz 1981 | Reimo Lunz, Archäologie Südtirols. Von den Jägern des Mesolithikums (um 7000 v. Chr.) bis zum Ende des Weströmischen Reiches (476 n. Chr.) [= Archäologische Forschungen in Tirol 7], Calliano (Trento): 1981. |
