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== Commentary ==
== Commentary ==
Bronze belt plaque, complete, with figural decorations.<br>The central scene composed by two deers. The deer on the right end with large antlers looks downwards, probably browsing. Around the central scene a frame made of fine grooves.<br>On the back side an [[index::PU-1|inscription||this side]].
Bronze belt plaque, complete, with figural decorations.<br>The central scene composed by two deers. The deer on the right end with large antlers looks downwards, probably browsing. Around the central scene a frame made of fine grooves.<br>On the back side an [[index::PU-1|inscription||this side]].<br>Due to the figural decoration working which is adapted to the typology of the ''Situlae'' the belt plaque of Lothen date to the 5th century BC.


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Object
Proper name: Gürtelblech von Lothen
Classification: belt plaque
Material: bronze
Size: length 35 cm, width 12 cm, thickness 0.07 cm
Condition: complete
Date: beginning of the 5th century BC
Date derived from: typology

Site: Lothen / Campolino (fraction of: St. Lorenzen / San Lorenzo di Sebato, Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name: Burgkofel
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 47' 34.80" N, 11° 53' 13.20" E [from site]
Find date: 1948
Current location: Museo Civico di Bolzano
Inventory Nr.: 2168

Inscription: PU-1 (χa?φelzurieskalahepruśiahil(?)/klu?θurus)

Sources: Lunz 1981b: 201, fig. 86
Dal Rì 1987: 177–178 (No. 730), fig. 304
Morandi 1999: 49-51 (No. 7)

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Commentary

Bronze belt plaque, complete, with figural decorations.
The central scene composed by two deers. The deer on the right end with large antlers looks downwards, probably browsing. Around the central scene a frame made of fine grooves.
On the back side an inscription.
Due to the figural decoration working which is adapted to the typology of the Situlae the belt plaque of Lothen date to the 5th century BC.

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.
Lunz 1973b Reimo Lunz, Ur- und Frühgeschichte Südtirols. Rätsel und Deutung, Bozen: Verlagsanstalt Athesia 1973.
Lunz 1981 Reimo Lunz, Archäologie Südtirols. Von den Jägern des Mesolithikums (um 7000 v. Chr.) bis zum Ende des Weströmischen Reiches (476 n. Chr.) [= Archäologische Forschungen in Tirol 7], Calliano (Trento): 1981.