MA-4 antler

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Object
Classification:	antler
Material:	antler
Size:	length 4.5 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Este IV
Date:	beginning of the 4th century BC
Date derived from:	palaeography
Site:	Magrè (fraction of: Schio, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Field name:	Colle del Castello
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 42' 21.60" N, 11° 20' 52.80" E [from site]
Find date:	1912
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo Nazionale Atestino
Inventory Nr.:	none
Inscription:	MA-4 (]eiluke[(?)?]śu)
Sources:	Pellegrini 1918: 189 (No. 20) fig. 27 Nothdurfter 2002: 1148 (list 3, No. 5)

Commentary

Fragment of an antler point which fits to MA-15 antler like the figure (see Pellegrini 1918: 189, fig. 27) indicates. The present fragment is the smaller one.
Two charred fragments of an antler point at which the middle section is missing as well as the right side, hence the beginning of the inscription.

Bibliography

Gambacurta 2002b	Giovanna Gambacurta, "Manufatti iscritti in osso o corno", 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, 121–126.
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.