BZ-19 sickle
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| Classification: | sickle |
| Material: | iron |
| Size: | length 23.5 cm |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
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| Site: | Lana / Lana (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Field name: | St. Hippolyt / San Ippolito |
| Archaeological context: | near the cremation grave |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 36' 43.20" N, 11° 9' 46.80" E [from site] |
| Find date: | October 1893 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Current location: | Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository) |
| Inventory Nr.: | 17.322 |
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| Inscription: | BZ-19 ($iị) |
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| Sources: | Franz 1959: 229, fig. 3.3 Kaltenhauser 1966: 62, pl. 15.8 |
Commentary
Sickle (leaf harvesting knife) with tang.
Curved blade, cutting edge inside; the wide tang twice perforated. Partly highly corroded, along corrosion holes. Front part and back in a moderate condition.
Near the tang characters.
In Franz 1959 only a circumscription.
Bibliography
| Franz 1959 | Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229. |
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| Kaltenhauser 1966 | Gerard Kaltenhauser, Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Altertümer von St. Hippolyt bei Tisens, Innsbruck: 1966. (2 volumes: text volume and volume of plates; unpublished doctoral research study) |
