BZ-11 cist

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Object
Classification: vessel
Archaeological type: cist
Material: bronze
Condition: damaged, fragmentary
Archaeological culture: La Tène B, La Tène C

Site: Pfatten / Vadena (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name: Stadlhof
Archaeological context: grave XVIII
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 24' 46.80" N, 11° 18' 18.00" E [from site]
Find date: autumn 1928
Find circumstances: excavation
Current location: unknown (currently untraceable)

Inscription: BZ-11 (ṭịte)

Sources: Ghislanzoni 1939: 514–515, fig. 156

Commentary

Remains of a bronze cist.
Highly smashed and bent.
On the edge an inscription.
The cist was used as ossuary which was buried at a depth of 1.40 meters.
Excavations directed by Antonio Nicolussi Moretto since autumn 1928. Major part of the funerals ossuaries, only three were cremation burials.
Current location: Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Ufficio Beni archeologici Bolzano or Stadtmuseum Bozen / Museo Civico Bolzano?????

Bibliography

Ghislanzoni 1939 Ettore Ghislanzoni, "Il sepolcreto di Vadena (Bolzano)", Monumenti antichi Lincei 38 (1939), 319–534.