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: Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Ufficio Beni archeologici Bolzano

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.

Bibliography

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