SR-15 bowl

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	Sanzeno-Schale
Material:	pottery
Size:	height: 7.8 cm, rim diameter: 10.6 cm, maximum diameter: 10.8 cm, base diameter: 3 cm, thickness: 4 mm
Condition:	complete
Date:	5th–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Serso (fraction of: Pergine Valsugana, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Field name:	Montesei di Serso
Archaeological context:	house No. 2 (Objects: SR-1 antler, SR-2 antler, SR-3 antler, SR-4 antler, SR-5 antler, SR-6 antler, SR-7 antler, SR-8 antler, SR-9 antler, SR-10 antler, SR-11 stone, SR-12 antler, SR-13 antler, SR-14 potsherd, SR-15 bowl)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 4' 28.16" N, 11° 14' 39.44" E
Find date:	1964
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo delle Scienze di Trento (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	PEGO 14
Inscription:	SR-15 (?)
Sources:	Perini 1965b: 155 (No. B 1), fig. 6

Images

Object SR-15 bowl.

Object SR-15 bowl with inscription SR-15.

Commentary

Bowl with omphalos.
Outside on the bottom characters, probably with non-script character like Mancini supposes it (cp. IR: 296).
The excavation in Montesei di Serso started in 1962 and was continued until 1964. In 1963 was discovered a house structure which can be dated to the second half of the Iron Age, i.e. to the 5th-1st centuries BC. The date is based on the different ceramic fragments from Sanzeno bowls which were found in this area.

S.K.

Bibliography

IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.