VN-11 bone point

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Object
Classification:	needle
Material:	bone
Size:	length about 13 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
Archaeological context:	room 3 at the eastern hillside
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E
Find date:	1997
Find circumstances:	excavation (Gamper and Steiner)
Current location:	Vintschger Museum Schluderns
Inscription:	VN-11 (lumene·χa·χiθiiii)
Sources:	Steiner & Gamper 1999: 154–155, fig. 9.10 Schumacher 2004: 323, fig. 13.3

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Object VN-11 bone point with inscription VN-11.

Commentary

Needle bone.
Broken among the perforation. The section between the top and the shaft is missing.
An inscription sidewise the narrow shaft.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone needle dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).

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.