SR-5 antler
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| Classification: | antler |
| Material: | antler |
| Size: | length 11.3 cm, width min. 1.7 cm, width max. 2.8 cm, thickness 0.4 cm+ |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Date: | 3rd century BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | Serso (fraction of: Pergine Valsugana, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Field name: | Montesei di Serso |
| Archaeological context: | house No. 2 (Objects: SR-1 antler, SR-2 antler, SR-3 antler, SR-4 antler, SR-5 antler, SR-6 antler, SR-7 antler, SR-8 antler, SR-9 antler, SR-10 antler, SR-11 stone, SR-12 antler, SR-13 antler, SR-14 potsherd, SR-15 bowl) |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 4' 28.16" N, 11° 14' 39.44" E |
| Find date: | 1964 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Current location: | Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali |
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| Inscription: | SR-5 (φ̣]rimapiθamn[ụ) |
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| Sources: | Pellegrini & Sebesta 1965: 3–8, 12 (No. 5), fig. 8 Dal Rì 1987: 176 (No. 725d) Marzatico 1996: 55, 64 (cat. No. I,21), fig. 13 Nothdurfter 2002: 1150 (list 3, No. 7) |
Images
 Object SR-5 antler with inscription SR-5.
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 Object SR-5 antler with inscription SR-5 - rear side.
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 Object SR-5 antler with inscription SR-5 - line 1.
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Commentary
Antler point, curved, traces of fire on one end. At the wider side also traces of perforation and broken.
Along an inscription in two lines from rigth to left. Also characters on the back side.
Dal Rì dates the whole antler group from Montesei di Serso to the 3rd century BC, whereas Schumacher suggets an older date to the 5th–4th centuries BC (Schumacher 2004: 247) and Pellegrini as well as Sebesta date the house No. 2 of Montesei di Serso, where the antlers were found, generally to the late Iron Age due to the typical house construction (Pellegrini & Sebesta 1965: 7).
According to Nothdurfter 1985: 138, Gleirscher 1986: 182, and Marzatico 1996: 55 and 64, the section of antler presents a cover of a key grip like Nothdurfter suggests it as well for the antler votives of Magrè (Nothdurfter 1985: 138).
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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| Gleirscher 1986 | Paul Gleirscher, "Stilisierte Frauenfigürchen aus Südtirol und dem Trentino. "Reitia", Göttin der "Räter"?", Der Schlern 60 (1986), 178–190. |
| Marzatico 1996 | Franco Marzatico, "Le chiavi nelle Alpi orientali fra il V–I secolo avanti Cristo: la chiave di Sanzeno o retica", in: Umberto Raffaelli (Ed.), Oltre la porta. Serrature, chiavi e forzieri dalla preistoria all'età moderna nelle Alpi orientali. Catalogo della mostra tenuta a Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, dal 13 luglio al 31 ottobre 1996, Trento: Castello del Buonconsiglio. Monumenti e collezioni provinciali 1996, 39–66. |
