MA-22 antler

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Object
Classification:	antler
Material:	antler
Size:	length 9.5 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:	stray find
Current location:	unknown
Inscription:	MA-22 (]ạθa)
Sources:	Pellegrini 1918: 178 (No. 1), fig. 8 Nothdurfter 2002: 1149 (list 3, No. 5)

Commentary

Fragment of an antler point with remains of an inscription. On one side perforated.
Compared to the other antlers of Magrè the present object represents one of the first finds made accidentally by Giovanni Piccoli, a carpenter from Schio, the 10th November, 1912. In consequence of this discovery an official excavation realized by the monument protection service was arranged from where the other pieces of antlers come.
Current location probably the Museo Nazionale Atestino.

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.