SZ-8 bronze

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Object
Proper name:	Il cavalletto
Classification:	statuette
Material:	bronze
Size:	length 10.5 cm
Condition:	unknown
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Casalini
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1947–1949
Find circumstances:	by chance
Current location:	Museo Retico Sanzeno (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	7666
Inscriptions:	SZ-8.1 (kaθiave) SZ-8.2 (?)
Sources:	Roberti 1950: 181 (No. VIII), pl. III.VIII

Images

Object SZ-8 bronze with inscription SZ-8.1 - frontside.

Object SZ-8 bronze with inscription SZ-8.2 - rear side.

Commentary

Bronze statuette.
Shape of a horse.
Roberti states the proper name Il cavaletto (cp. Roberti 1950: 181); Vetter mentions Pferdchen (cp. Vetter 1954: 71) and Pellegrini indicates the name given by Roberti as well as Pferdchen B (cp. Pellegrini 1951: 312). The latter in according to Mayr (cp. Mayr 1951: 32, fig. VIII).
Almost the entire group of bronze statuettes from Sanzeno was discovered between 1947 and 1949. The bronzes were found by chance in a sand pit (cp. Pellegrini 1951: 304; Vetter 1954: 66-67).

Bibliography

Mayr 1951	Karl M. Mayr, "Die Inschriften der Votive von Sanzeno (2)", Der Schlern 25 (1951), 30–32, 78–79, 133–135, 179–181.