MA-11 antler

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Object
Classification:	antler
Material:	antler
Size:	length 11 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.:	I.G. 58816
Inscription:	MA-11 (ẹ]ṣθuvaθinaχe)
Sources:	Pellegrini 1918: 180 (No. 5), fig. 12 Nothdurfter 2002: 1149 (list 3, No. 5)

Commentary

Antler point, broken in three pieces (Pellegrini 1918: 180). Absent the narrow perforated end. Along an inscription from left to right, at which the beginning part is missing.

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.