MA-16 antler
From Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum
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| Classification: | antler |
| Material: | antler |
| Size: | length 17.5 cm |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
| Archaeological culture: | Este IV |
| Date: | beginning of the 4th century BC |
| Date derived from: | palaeography |
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| 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. 58819 |
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| Inscription: | MA-16 (val·θeφnu) |
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| Sources: | Pellegrini 1918: 181 (No. 6), fig. 13 Nothdurfter 2002: 1149 (list 3, No. 5) |
Commentary
Antler point, complete and in a good state of preservation. On the narrow end, below the acuate top perforated. At the centre, on the back side sawed halfway through. Down from the hole towards the wider section of the antler an 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. |
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| 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. |
