BZ-1 potsherd

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	bowl with S-shaped profile
Material:	pottery
Size:	outside diameter about 9 cm
Condition:	damaged, fragmentary, restored
Archaeological culture:	Hallstatt D, La Tène A, La Tène B
Date:	end of the 6th–middle of the 3rd centuries BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Tirol / Tirolo (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Hochbühel
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 41' 27.60" N, 11° 9' 14.40" E [from site]
Find date:	1891
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	12.629
Inscription:	BZ-1 (]anu[)
Sources:	Torggler-Wöß 1953b: 442–443, pl. I/4 Lunz 1974: 410, pl. 73,1

Commentary

Fragment of a bowl with compressed S-shaped profile.
Clay with a fine temper of quartz; burnished outside and inside surface of red brown in colour.
At the area of the belly wide and vertical striae.
On the bottom characters (cp. Franz 1959: 228–229 only with transcription of the inscription).
The potsherd from Hochbühel is one of the discoveries made in the 19th century. Around 1886 a minor excavation was executed by Fridolin Plant at which were found "viele, teils gut erhaltene und ornamentierte Aschenurnen, Topfscherben, auch Fibeln, Schmuckgegenstände aus Glas usw." (cp. F. Plant according to Lunz 1974: 192). Franz Tappeiner continued the excavation between 1890–1891. During this campaign hundred of potsherds were discovered. Therefore the present potsherd derives from the excavation executed by Plant or from this made by Tappeiner. Mancini however indicates 1891 as exact find year (cp. LIR: 66, No. BZ-21), consequently during the excavation made by Tappeiner.
According to Lunz the potsherd dates to the late Hallstatt period and the beginning of the La Tène period due to the typology of the earthenware found at Hochbühel. The major part of the pottery contains bowls with compressed S-shaped profile, wide, flat strap handles with set on edge rims, double triangle as well as retangle seal. The find situation indicates therefore a dating to Ez IV–La B2 (cp. Lunz 1974: 193).
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.

Bibliography

Franz 1959	Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229.
Gamper 2006	Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006.
Gleirscher 1985b	Paul Gleirscher, "Zur Entwicklung der Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur", Mitteilungen der österreichischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (MUAG) XXXV (1985), 57–63.
LIR	Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes)
Lunz 1974	Reimo Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit im Südalpenraum, Firenze: Sansoni 1974.
Marzatico 2001b	Franco Marzatico, "La seconda età del Ferro", in: Michele Lanzinger, Franco Marzatico, Annaluisa Pedrotti (Eds), Storia del Trentino. Vol. 1: La preistoria e la protostoria, Bologna: Il Mulino 2001, 479–573.