WE-3 antler

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Object
Classification: handle
Material: antler
Size: length 10.6 cm, width 2.3 cm, height 2.2 cm
Condition: damaged
Date: 5th–4th centuries BC
Date derived from: unknown

Site: Brixen / Bressanone (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name: Stufels
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 43' 1.20" N, 11° 39' 28.80" E [from site]
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Current location: Amt für Bodendenkmäler Bozen / Soprintendenza per i beni archeologici di Bolzano
Inventory Nr.: St. 6992

Inscription: WE-3 (lastasieluku/piθamnuale)

Sources: Dal Rì 1987: 178 (No. 731), fig. 305
Nothdurfter 2002: 1147 (list 2, No. 2), fig. 1,7

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Commentary

Grip of a deer antler (Cervus elaphus).
Surface facetted and abraded, on both sides cut, one side holed.
Along an inscription.
For the reading of the inscription and the meaning of raetic eluku see: Rix 1998: 22–23.

Bibliography

Dal Rì 1987 Lorenzo Dal Rì, "Influssi etrusco-italici nella regione retico-alpina", in: Raffaele De Marinis (Ed.), Gli Etruschi a nord del Po, Mantova: Regione Lombardia - Provincia e Comune di Mantova 1987, 160–179.