SZ-16 statuette

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Object
Classification:	statuette
Material:	bronze
Size:	length: 2.9 cm, width: 2.6 cm, height: 10.2 cm
Condition:	complete
Date:	450–400 BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Casalini
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1846
Find circumstances:	stray find
Current location:	Castello del Buonconsiglio
Inventory Nr.:	3038
Inscription:	SZ-16 (laθurusitianusatanin)
Sources:	Walde Psenner 1983: 107–108 (No. 85), fig. 85 and 85a Guaitoli 2004: 23 with fig. cat. 7.3 Oberosler 2004c: 657–658 Zamboni 2011e: 545

Images

Object SZ-16 statuette with inscription SZ-16 - front side.

Object SZ-16 statuette with inscription SZ-16 - sideview.

Object SZ-16 statuette with inscription SZ-16 - backside.

Object SZ-16 statuette with inscription SZ-16 - sideview.

Commentary

Bronze statuette of a warrior.
Surface smoothed, patina from dark brown to greenish. The statuette stands on a small round foot, along the edge an inscription.
The bronze statuette was discovered by chance in 1846 (cp. Ghislanzoni 1931: 410, fn. 1; Weber 1903 -> Simone Weber in Rivista Tridentina, III, 1903).
According to Walde Psenner 1983: 108 and Oberosler 2004c: 658, the statuette dates - in agreement with other bronze statuettes of the same type - to the 5th century BC.
Possibilities for interpretation: statuette of a warrior or statuette of the divinity Mars.
So far not autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. The indications follow the information given in literature (cp. below the bibliography).

S.K.

Bibliography

Ghislanzoni 1931	Ettore Ghislanzoni, "Sanzeno nell'Anaunia. Scavi di abitazioni preromane", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , Vol. VII (1931), 409–471.
Guaitoli 2004	Maria Teresa Guaitoli, "La dimensione di guerriero, principe ed eroe attraverso le fonti letterarie e le testimonianze archeologiche", in: Franco Marzatico, Paul Gleirscher (eds), Guerrieri, principi ed eroi fra il Danubio e il Po dalla preistoria all’alto medioevo, Trento: Castello del Buonconsiglio 2004, 17–33.