SZ-61 bowl

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	Sanzeno-Schale
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 6.3 cm, mouth diameter 9.7 cm
Condition:	complete
Date:	3rd–2nd centuries BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	22.05.1901
Find circumstances:	old finding
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.:	11.935
Inscription:	SZ-61 (?(?)?)
Sources:	IR: 281 (No. 60)

Commentary

Sanzeno bowl.
Fine clay, light brown in colour, with a moderate temper of fine grained sand and cast gold as well as argentine mica. Compressed neck and widely extended mouth rim; typical omphalos.
Between neck and body a decoration in form of a circumferential ribbon. Below further decoration: four groups of striae. Decorations before firing.
Outside on the bottom characters, incised after firing.
The find date, 22.05.1901, given by Mancini is uncertain (cp. LIR: 113; the information reminds of the find date of SZ-29 bowl, SZ-52 bowl, SZ-54 bowl, SZ-60 bowl as well as SZ-83 bowl given also by Mancini, cp. LIR: 141 [No. SA-101] resp. LIR: 132 [No. SA-81], LIR: 110 [No. SA-49], LIR: 130 [No. SA-79], LIR: 106 [No. SA-43] and LIR: 141 [No. SA-100]). Further find circumstances like exact find place are unknown.
In accord with the typology the bowl can be dated to the 3rd–2nd centuries BC.
Probably first published in IR: 281 (No. 60; only a transcription of the inscription), however with particular regards to the inscription.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.

Bibliography

IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
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)