VN-2 bone

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Object
Classification: unidentifiable
Material: bone
Size: length 3.5 cm, width 1.1. cm
Condition: fragmentary
Date: 3rd–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: probably between 1989 and 1992
Find circumstances: excavation (Pohl and Wieser)
Current location: Vintschger Museum Schluderns

Inscription: VN-2 (ụ]mep[)

Sources: Schubert 1992: 446, fig. 4.1
Schumacher 2004: 177, 208, pl. 3.1

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Commentary

Bone plate.
Animal bone, not further classified. Calcined.
Along an inscription.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone plate dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).
Until 1992 in private property of Karl Pohl. The current location however is Vintschger Museum Schluderns.

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.