MA-13 antler

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Object
Classification: antler
Material: antler
Size: length 13.5 cm
Condition: damaged
Archaeological culture: Este IV
Date: beginning of the 4th century BC
Date derived from: palaeography

Site: Magrè (fraction of: Schio, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy)
Field name: Colle del Castello
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 42' 21.60" N, 11° 20' 52.80" E [from site]
Find date: 1912
Find circumstances: excavation
Current location: Museo Nazionale Atestino
Inventory Nr.: I.G. 58815

Inscription: MA-13 (es·sθuaθel·pa?inua)

Sources: Pellegrini 1918: 179 (No. 3), fig. 10
Pellegrini & Sebesta 1965: 3–4, fig. 2
Nothdurfter 2002: 1149 (list 3, No. 5)

Commentary

Antler point; on the narrow end perforated. Pellegrini describes the antler point as irregular formed due to the contraction at the centre (Pellegrini 1918: 179). From the hole, along one side until the wider end an inscription.

Bibliography

Gambacurta 2002b Giovanna Gambacurta, "Manufatti iscritti in osso o corno", in: Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), Akeo. I tempi della scrittura. Veneti antichi: alfabeti e documenti, 121–126.
Gambacurta et al. 2002 Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), "Catalogo. Veneti antichi. Alfabeti e documenti", in: Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), Akeo. I tempi della scrittura. Veneti antichi: alfabeti e documenti, 157–275.