FI-1 antler
From Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum
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| Classification: | unknown |
| Material: | antler |
| Size: | preserved length 7 cm, height 3 cm |
| Condition: | incomplete, restored |
| Date: | 4th–3rd century BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | Tesero (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Field name: | Sottopedonda |
| Archaeological context: | settlement of the Iron Age |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 17' 24.00" N, 11° 30' 28.80" E [from site] |
| Find date: | 1981 |
| Find circumstances: | rescue excavation |
| Current location: | Soprintendenza per i Beni librari, archivistici e archeologici della Provincia autonoma di Trento |
| Inventory Nr.: | TSP 81 |
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| Inscription: | FI-1 (ṣ a[/kakaka[(?)/θarani[?/saφ̣ạṇa/θ̣]arani[?) |
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| Sources: | Silvestri 1983: 195–196, fig. 8 Dal Rì 1987: 175–176 (No. 724) Sebesta 1993: 10 Nothdurfter 2002: 1147 (list 2, No. 3) Roncador 2011: 645–646, fig. 7.22 |
Images
 Object FI-1 antler with inscription FI-1 - line 2.
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 Object FI-1 antler with inscription FI-1 - line 1.
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 Object FI-1 antler with inscription FI-1 - line 3.
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 Object FI-1 antler with inscription FI-1 - line 4.
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 Object FI-1 antler with inscription FI-1 - line 5.
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Commentary
Antler point; tube-shaped and full-round. Abraded and fire-blackened by an ancient fire like the lustre indicates. One side with regular border, the other side however broken.
Probably used as grip protection of a bronze tool, like Dal Rì suggests it due to the poriferous interior part which is perforated at the centre (Dal Rì 1987: 175). So arguable used as key grip and later, because of the inscription in five lines, as votive offering like Nothdurfter explains it (Nothdurfter 2002: 1147).
Found in different fragments and restored by the monument protection service (Silvestri 1983: 195).
Dal Rì and Roncador date the antler to the 4th–3rd centuries BC (Dal Rì 1987: 176; Roncador 2011: 646).
