PA-1 spatula

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Object
Proper name:	Paletta di Padova
Classification:	spatula
Material:	bronze
Size:	length 27.7 cm, width 9.3 cm
Condition:	complete
Date:	6th–5th centuries BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Padova (Padova, Veneto, Italy)
Field name:	courtyard of the convent Sant'Antonio
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 24' 2.84" N, 11° 52' 51.06" E
Find date:	1899
Find circumstances:	stray find
Current location:	Museo Archeologico di Padova (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	XIX-90
Inscription:	PA-1 (eθsualeuθikukaial·/nakinaθarisakvil·)
Sources:	Tombolani 1976: 196–197 (No. 33), pl. 36 A (recto) Gregnanin 2000: 157–159, fig. 277a (recto), fig. 277b (verso)

Commentary

Bronze ritual shovel. Cast.
The decoration on the front side, representing a horse, chiseled. The decoration indicates a date to the turn from type A to type B at which the type B dates to the 6th–5th centuries BC.
On the back side an inscription at the margin on the left as well as on the right and characters in the form of an asterisk and a caporale at the lower area of the handle.

Bibliography

Gambacurta et al. 2002	Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), "Catalogo. Veneti antichi. Alfabeti e documenti", in: Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), Akeo. I tempi della scrittura. Veneti antichi: alfabeti e documenti, 157–275.
Gregnanin 2000	Rossana Gregnanin, "Catalogo. Sezione V. Instrumenta. Palette, n. 276–282", in: Girolamo Zampieri, Beniamino Lavarone, Bronzi Antichi del Museo Archeologico di Padova. Statuette figurate egizie, etrusche, venetiche e italiche, armi preromane, romane e medioevali, gioielli e oggetti di ornamento, instrumentum domesticum dal deposito del museo, Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider 2000, 157–161.