VN-11 bone point

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Object
Classification: needle
Material: bone
Size: length about 13 cm
Condition: damaged
Date: 5th–1st centuries BC
Date derived from: archaeological context

Site: Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name: Ganglegg
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E
Find date: 1997
Find circumstances: excavation
Current location: Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici di Bolzano

Inscription: VN-11 (lumene·χa·χiθiiii)

Sources: Steiner & Gamper 1999: 154–155, fig. 9.10
Schumacher 2004: 323, 361 Taf. 13.3

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Commentary

Needle bone, broken among the perforation. The section between the top and the shaft is missing.
An inscription sidewise the narrow shaft.
All the discoveries made on the Ganglegg date to the Fritzens-Sanzeno Culture.

Bibliography

Gamper 2006 Peter Gamper, Die latènezeitliche Besiedlung am Ganglegg in Südtirol. Neue Forschungen zur Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur [= Internationale Archäologie 91], Rahden/Westfalen: Leidorf 2006.
Gamper & Steiner 1999 Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.
Lora & Ruta Serafini 1992 Silvana Lora, Angela Ruta Serafini, "Il gruppo Magrè", in: Ingrid R. Metzger, Paul Gleirscher, Die Räter / I Reti [= Schriftenreihe der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Alpenländer, Neue Folge 4], Bozen: Athesia 1992, 247–272.
Marchesini 2014 Simona Marchesini, "Nuove iscrizioni retiche da Cles e Sanzeno (Trento)", in: Rosa Roncador, Franco Nicolis, Antichi popoli delle Alpi. Sviluppi culturali durante l'età del Ferro nei territori alpini centro-orientali (Atti della giornata internazionale di studi 1 maggio 2010 Sanzeno, Trento), Trento: Provincia autonoma di Trento. Soprintendenza per i beni architettonici e archeologici 2014, 127–144.