MA-23 antler

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Object
Classification: antler
Material: antler
Size: length 15 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.: I.G. 58817

Inscription: MA-23 (usθiþu/zezeve)

Sources: Pellegrini 1918: 188 (No. 19), fig. 26
Nothdurfter 2002: 1149 (list 3, No. 5)

Commentary

Antler point, complete but in a mediocre state of preservation. Perforated on the narrow end. In the wider area of the antler an inscription in two lines, both from right to left.

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.