SZ-83 bowl

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	bowl with S-shaped profile
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 5 cm, mouth diameter 9.1 cm
Condition:	damaged, incomplete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C
Date:	about 250–120 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 (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	11.946
Inscription:	SZ-83 (?)
Sources:	Zemmer-Plank et al. 1985: 167 (cat. No. 49)

Commentary

Bowl with S-shaped profile.
Medium-fine clay, from brown to dark brown in colour. Moderate tempered of medium-grained sand and cast gold as well as argentine mica. Compressed body, widely extending mouth rim, omphalos.
In the upper area of the shoulder a circumferential ribbon decoration. Decoration before firing.
On the bottom characters, incised after firing.
The find date, 22.05.1901, given by Mancini is uncertain (cp. LIR: 141; the information reminds of the find date of SZ-29 bowl, SZ-52 bowl, SZ-54 bowl, SZ-59 bowl, SZ-60 bowl as well as SZ-61 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: 103 [No. SA-40], LIR: 106 [No. SA-43] and LIR: 113 [No. SA-53]). Further find circumstances like exact find place are unknown.
The dating given by Zemmer-Plank follows the common typology related to bowls with S-shaped profile (cp. Zemmer-Plank et al. 1985: 167).
Probably first published in Zemmer-Plank et al. 1985: 167 (cat. No. 49), however there are neither a picture nor an archaeological drawing of the object. Related to the inventory number Mancini indicates a misinformation, in LIR: 141 (No. SA-100) the inventory number 11.945 is given. In actual fact the correct inventory number is: 11.946.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.

Bibliography

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)