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{{object
{{object
|name=Spada di Verona, Spiedo di Ca' dei Cavri
|name=Spada di Verona, Spiedo di Ca' dei Cavri
|type_object=unknown
|type_object=spit
|material=bronze
|material=bronze
|dimension=length 56 cm
|dimension=length 56 cm
|dimension_max=56 cm
|dimension_max=56 cm
|condition=incomplete
|condition=damaged
|sortdate=-400
|sortdate=-400
|date=beginning of the 4th century BC
|date=uncertain
|date_derivation=unknown
|date_derivation=unknown
|site=Ca' dei Cavri
|site=Ca' dei Cavri
|sortdate_find=1672
|sortdate_find=1672
|date_find=before 1672
|location=Museo Miniscalchi Erizzo
|location=Museo Miniscalchi Erizzo
|source=Schumacher 2004: 171–172, pl. 2.4
|inventory_number=none
|checklevel=5
|accessibility=on exhibition
|problem=object type, details
|checklevel=0
}}
}}
== Commentary ==
== Commentary ==
Bronze spit, according to Salzani ecc.  
Published in {{bib|Rossi 1672}}: 404–407. Examined by TIR in November 2015.
* see {{bib|Marinetti 1987}}: 131
 
The object, erroneously called a "spada" (sword), was long only known from Rossi's publication in a catalogue of Conte Lodovico Moscardo's collection of antiquities. After the rediscovery by {{bib|Marinetti 1987|Marinetti}} in the 1980s, it was identified as a skewer of the sort which was used in ritual feasts by {{bib|Salzani 1984}}: 793. Salzani compares the piece to similar ones from Padova and Magdalenska gora (the latter longer than the Verona spit; {{bib|Weiss 1999c}}: 66, fig. 66 a–b). Cf. now also the similar spit bearing a Camunic inscription from Sabbio Chiese ({{bib|Baioni et al. 2022}}: 770–771).
 
{{bib|Salzani 1984}}: 781 dates the Spada to the early 4<sup>th</sup> century, to which the Slovenian specimen can be dated by context (also {{bib|Gambacurta et al. 2002}}: 185 [no. 19]). {{bib|De Marinis 1988}}: 121, however, lists the Spada among inscribed objects dated to the 5<sup>th</sup> century; Marinetti herself ({{bib|Marinetti 1987}}: 138 f. [n. 5]) dates it as early as the 6<sup>th</sup>–5<sup>th</sup> century.
 
The find place is indicated as Ca' dei Cavri, a fraction of Bussolengo, in the original publication (p. 404 "Campagna Caudina"); if this is accurate, the Spada is the only object with a Raetic inscription from the right bank of the Adige south of Trento.
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Latest revision as of 13:48, 2 May 2023

Object
Proper name: Spada di Verona, Spiedo di Ca' dei Cavri
Classification: spit
Material: bronze
Size: length 56 cm
Condition: damaged
Date: uncertain
Date derived from: unknown

Site: Ca' dei Cavri (fraction of: Bussolengo, Verona, Veneto, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 26' 49.20" N, 10° 53' 6.00" E [from site]
Find date: 1672
Current location: Museo Miniscalchi Erizzo (on exhibition)
Inventory Nr.: none

Inscription: VR-3 (taniniutikuremieshiratasuvakhikvelisanes)

Commentary

Published in Rossi 1672: 404–407. Examined by TIR in November 2015.

The object, erroneously called a "spada" (sword), was long only known from Rossi's publication in a catalogue of Conte Lodovico Moscardo's collection of antiquities. After the rediscovery by Marinetti in the 1980s, it was identified as a skewer of the sort which was used in ritual feasts by Salzani 1984: 793. Salzani compares the piece to similar ones from Padova and Magdalenska gora (the latter longer than the Verona spit; Weiss 1999c: 66, fig. 66 a–b). Cf. now also the similar spit bearing a Camunic inscription from Sabbio Chiese (Baioni et al. 2022: 770–771).

Salzani 1984: 781 dates the Spada to the early 4th century, to which the Slovenian specimen can be dated by context (also Gambacurta et al. 2002: 185 [no. 19]). De Marinis 1988: 121, however, lists the Spada among inscribed objects dated to the 5th century; Marinetti herself (Marinetti 1987: 138 f. [n. 5]) dates it as early as the 6th–5th century.

The find place is indicated as Ca' dei Cavri, a fraction of Bussolengo, in the original publication (p. 404 "Campagna Caudina"); if this is accurate, the Spada is the only object with a Raetic inscription from the right bank of the Adige south of Trento.

Bibliography

Baioni et al. 2022 Marco Baioni, Raffaella Poggiani Keller, Anna Marinetti, "Santuari e percorsi cultuali dell'età del Ferro nella Valle del Chiese", in: Raffaele C. de Marinis, Marta Rapi (eds), Preistoria e Protostoria in Lombardia e Canton Ticino [= Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche 72], Firenze: Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria 2022, 765–775.
De Marinis 1988 Raffaele De Marinis, "Le popolazioni alpine di stirpe retica", in: Anna Maria Chieco Bianchi (Ed.), Italia Omnium Terrarum Alumna. La civiltà dei Veneti, Reti, Liguri, Celti, Piceni, Umbri, Latini, Campani e Japigi [= Antica Madre 11], Milano: 1988, 101–130.
Gambacurta et al. 2002 Giovanna Gambacurta, Daniela Locatelli, Luigi Malnati, Patrizia Manessi, Anna Marinetti, Giovanna Luisa Ravagnan (Eds), "Catalogo. Veneti antichi. Alfabeti e documenti", 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, 157–275.
Marinetti 1987 Anna Marinetti, "L'iscrizione retica (PID 247) da Ca' dei Cavri (Verona)", in: Alessandra Aspes (Ed.), Prima della Storia. Inediti di 10 anni di ricerche a Verona, Verona: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 1987, 131–140.