VR-1 antler

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Object
Classification: antler
Material: antler
Size: length 22.5 cm
Condition: fragmentary

Site: San Briccio (fraction of: Lavagno, Verona, Veneto, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 27' 18.00" N, 11° 7' 8.40" E [from site]
Find date: 1883
Current location: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Verona
Inventory Nr.: none

Inscription: VR-1 (tinesuna)

Sources: Mayr 1958: 41 (No. I) with photo
Nothdurfter 2002: 1148 (list 3, No. 4)

Commentary

Antler tenon, not shaped as a grip; thick, curved and forked; sawed through or broken and partly polished on the ends. The rest of the surface seems to be unaffected. On the narrow end a small hole for hanging. Close by the hole is to observed the inscription.

Bibliography

Cipolla 1884 Carlo Cipolla, "III. Lavagno", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1884), 4–13.
Gambacurta 2002b Giovanna Gambacurta, "Manufatti iscritti in osso o corno", in: Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), Akeo. I tempi della scrittura. Veneti antichi: alfabeti e documenti, 121–126.
Mancini & Prosdocimi 1976 Alberto Mancini, Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi, "Nota sui Corni Iscritti di S. Briccio di Lavagno e sul "Retico"", in: Alessandra Aspes (Red.), 3000 anni fa a Verona. Dalla fine dell'età del Bronzo all'arrivo dei romani nel territorio Veronese, Verona: 1976, 111–122.
Mayr 1958 Karl M. Mayr, "Hirschhörner mit etrusko-rätischen Inschriften aus S. Briccio di Lavagno (Verona)", Der Schlern 32 (1958), 41–42.