FI-1 antler

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Object
Classification: unidentifiable
Material: antler
Size: preserved length 7 cm, height 3 cm
Condition: incomplete, restored
Date: 4th–3rd century BC
Date derived from: archaeological context

Site: Tesero (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name: Sottopedonda
Archaeological context: settlement of the Iron Age
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 17' 24.00" N, 11° 30' 28.80" E [from site]
Find date: 1981
Find circumstances: rescue excavation
Current location: Soprintendenza per i beni architettonici e archeologici della provincia autonoma di Trento, Ufficio beni archeologici
Inventory Nr.: TSP 81

Inscription: FI-1 (ṣ a[/kakaka[(?)/θarani[?/saφ̣ạṇa/θ̣]arani[?)

Sources: Sebesta 1981: 193–204, fig. 1, 2, 3, 3a
Silvestri 1983: 195–196, fig. 8
Dal Rì 1987: 175–176 (No. 724)
Roncador 2011: 645–646, fig. 7.22

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Commentary

Antler point (?); tube-shaped and full-round. Abraded and fire-blackened by an ancient fire like the lustre indicates. One side with regular border, the other side however broken.
Different indications of material: Sebesta notes a piece of "l'osso tubulare, probabilmente di cervo" (cp. Sebesta 1981: 197), however Silvestri mentions a "corno di cervo" (cp. Silvestri 1983: 195). In consequence of these different material indications also the following literature presents diverse material indications: Dal Rì indicates "corno di cervo" (cp. Dal Rì 1987: 175), Nothdurfter mentions "Hirschhornvotiv" (cp. Nothdurfter 2002: 1147) and Roncador describes an "osso iscritto" (cp. Roncador 2011: 645).
Probably used as grip protection of a bronze tool, like Dal Rì suggests it due to the poriferous interior part which is perforated at the centre (Dal Rì 1987: 175). So arguable used as key pinch and later, because of the inscription in five lines, as votive offering like Nothdurfter explains it (Nothdurfter 2002: 1147 (list 2, No. 3)). Also Schumacher supposes the use as key pinch in accord with a oral message by Gleirscher (cp. Schumacher 2004: 204).
Found in different fragments and restored by the monument protection service (Silvestri 1983: 195).
Dal Rì and Roncador date the antler resp. the bone to the 4th–3rd centuries BC (Dal Rì 1987: 176; Roncador 2011: 646).

Bibliography

Dal Rì 1987 Lorenzo Dal Rì, "Influssi etrusco-italici nella regione retico-alpina", in: Raffaele De Marinis (Ed.), Gli Etruschi a nord del Po, Mantova: Regione Lombardia - Provincia e Comune di Mantova 1987, 160–179.
Marchesini 2012 Simona Marchesini, "La ricezione di elementi culturali allogeni in ambito retico: Taranis in Val di Fiemme (TN)", in: –, Mode e modelli. Fortuna e insuccesso nella circolazione di cose e idee [= Officina Etruscologia 7], Roma: 2012, 177–190.
Marzatico 2001b Franco Marzatico, "La seconda età del Ferro", in: Michele Lanzinger, Franco Marzatico, Annaluisa Pedrotti (Eds), Storia del Trentino. Vol. 1: La preistoria e la protostoria, Bologna: Il Mulino 2001, 479–573.