BZ-17 axe

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Object
Classification: axe
Archaeological type: winged axe
Material: bronze
Size: length: 13.7 cm, width: 6.1 cm, height: 4.1 cm
Condition: complete
Archaeological culture: Hallstatt B
Date: 7th–beginning of the 6th centuries BC
Date derived from: typology

Site: Kaltern / Caldaro (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Archaeological context: hoard
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 24' 46.80" N, 11° 14' 45.60" E [from site]
Find date: the 1860s
Current location: Castello del Buonconsiglio (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.: 2789

Inscription: BZ-17 (?)

Sources: Orsi 1882: 14 (n. 8), fig. 1.8
Lunz 1974: 355, pl. 6.6
Marzatico 1997: 452–453 (n. 1100), fig. 197
Zamboni 2011g: 641, fig. 7.16

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Commentary

Bronze winged axe.

S.K.

Bibliography

Lunz 1974 Reimo Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit im Südalpenraum, Firenze: Sansoni 1974.
Marzatico 1997 Franco Marzatico, I materiali preromani della Valle dell’Adige nel Castello del Buonconsiglio [= Patrimonio storico artistico del Trentino 21], Trento: 1997. (3 volumes)