MA-16 antler

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Object
Classification: antler
Material: antler
Size: length 17.5 cm
Condition: complete, 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. 58819

Inscription: MA-16 (val·θeφnu)

Sources: Pellegrini 1918: 181 (No. 6), fig. 13
Nothdurfter 2002: 1149 (list 3, No. 5)

Commentary

Antler point, complete and in a good state of conservation. On the narrow end, below the acuate top perforated. At the centre, on the back side sawed halfway through. Down from the hole towards the wider section of the antler 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.