VN-5 bone

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	bone
Size:	length 12.2 cm
Condition:	complete
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:
Current location:	Vintschger Museum Schluderns
Inscriptions:	VN-5.1 (iiiiθiv) VN-5.2 (?)
Sources:	Gamper & Steiner 1999: 48–51, fig. 24.8

Images

Object VN-5 bone with inscription VN-5.1.

Object VN-5 bone with inscription VN-5.2.

Commentary

Bone of an animal (sheep or goat).
Complete extant, perforated.
Along characters.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).
To control: Schumacher 1994: 309 et seq.; part of the old findings of Pohl and Wieser? approximate find date?

Bibliography

Gamper & Steiner 1999	Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.