VN-13 bone
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| Classification: | unidentifiable |
| Material: | bone |
| Size: | length 7.3 cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Date: | 3rd–1st centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Field name: | Ganglegg |
| Archaeological context: | room 3 at the eastern hillside |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E |
| Find date: | 1997 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation (Gamper and Steiner) |
| Current location: | Vintschger Museum / Museo della Val Venosta |
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| Inscription: | VN-13 (muṇịe) |
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| Sources: | Steiner & Gamper 1999: 154–155, fig. 9.12 Schumacher 2004: 323–324, fig. 13.5 |
Images
 Object VN-13 bone with inscription VN-13.
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 Object VN-13 bone with inscription VN-13.
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Commentary
Animal bone of a sheep (Ovis orientalis aries) or a goat (Capra aegagrus hircus).
Broken at one side, perforated.
Along an inscription.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).
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. |
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| Gamper & Steiner 1999 | Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999. |
