MA-1 antler

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Object
Classification: antler
Material: antler
Size: 11 cm
Condition: complete
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.: none

Inscription: MA-1 (piθamne helanu)

Sources: Pellegrini 1918: 184–185 (No. 12), fig. 19
Nothdurfter 2002: 1148 (list 3, No. 5)

Commentary

Antler point, complete, but crumbly and partly corroded in section of the surface; curved, sawed through; on the narrow end, above the end of the inscription perforated.

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.