VN-12 bone point

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Object
Classification:	needle
Material:	bone
Size:	length 8 cm
Condition:	damaged
Date:	3rd–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:	between 1989 and 1997
Find circumstances:	excavation (Pohl and Wieser)
Current location:	Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici di Bolzano
Inscription:	VN-12 (ke)
Sources:	Gamper & Steiner 1999: 48–49, fig. 24.4, fig. 25

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Object VN-12 bone point with inscription VN-12.

Commentary

Bone needle.
Broken at the area of the perforation; a section here is also missing.
Along the narrow side an inscription from right to left.
In Gamper & Steiner 1999: fig. 24.4 (drawing), fig. 25 (photo).
To control: really old finding of an excavation Pohl and Wieser, find date?

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.
Lora & Ruta Serafini 1992	Silvana Lora, Angela Ruta Serafini, "Il gruppo Magrè", in: Ingrid R. Metzger, Paul Gleirscher, Die Räter / I Reti [= Schriftenreihe der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpenländer, Neue Folge 4], Bozen: Athesia 1992, 247–272.
Marchesini 2014	Simona Marchesini, "Nuove iscrizioni retiche da Cles e Sanzeno (Trento)", in: Rosa Roncador, Franco Nicolis, Antichi popoli delle Alpi. Sviluppi culturali durante l'età del Ferro nei territori alpini centro-orientali (Atti della giornata internazionale di studi 1 maggio 2010 Sanzeno, Trento), Trento: Provincia autonoma di Trento. Soprintendenza per i beni architettonici e archeologici 2014, 127–144.