SZ-17 handle
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| Classification: | vessel |
| Archaeological type: | Situla |
| Material: | bronze |
| Size: | lenght 23.5 cm, thickness about 0.7 cm, estimated diameter at the top about 21 cm |
| Condition: | complete, incomplete |
| Date: | 5th–4th centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | typology |
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| Site: | Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site] |
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| Find circumstances: | old finding |
| Current location: | Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (on exhibition) |
| Inventory Nr.: | 13.379 |
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| Inscription: | SZ-17 (sχsi) |
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| Sources: | PID: 17 LIR: 96 with detailed photo |
Commentary
Bronze handle.
Probably the handle of a situla or a bowl (PID: 17). According to the typology the handle is part of a situla.
Patina from dark green to blackish in colour with brown patches; smoothed.
Horse's head ends, but one end broken.
In the area of the broken end an inscription. Further references more related to the inscription: Vetter 1954: 72 (No. 17); Pellegrini 1951: 316 (No. 17). However Pellegrini as well as Vetter note the characters on it as decoration.
According to Wahtmough the handle was bought in Bolzano, but found in Sanzeno (cp. PID: 17). Mancini notes that Pellegrini as well as Vetter indicate Mechel / Meclo as find place. But Mancini misinterprets the notes of Vetter and the really confusing remarks made by Pellegrini (cp. LIR: 96). The latter indicates three objects: "frammento di manico di situla a sezione cilindrica" with No. 16, "altro manico di situla, assai bene conservato" with No. 17 - the present SZ-17 handle and "una spada di ferro" (No. 18), then he refers to No. 198 in PID and places this number to Mechel / Meclo however the No. 198 in PID is definitely related to Sanzeno. The objects related to Mechel / Meclo comprise the numbers from No. 210 to No. 213 (cp. PID: 23). However there are no more indications related to further find circumstances.
Bibliography
| LIR | Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes) |
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