SZ-57 bowl

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological type:	Sanzeno-Schale
Material:	pottery
Size:	height: 5.5 cm, rim diameter: 8 cm, maximum diameter: 8.1 cm, base diameter: 2 cm, thickness: 3 mm
Condition:	complete, restored
Date:	3rd–2nd centuries BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Sanzeno (Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 21' 57.60" N, 11° 4' 30.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1906
Find circumstances:	old finding
Current location:	Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (repository)
Inventory Nr.:	11.936
Inscriptions:	SZ-57.1 (la) SZ-57.2 (la)
Sources:	Franz 1959: 228, pl. 2.5 IR: 279, pl. XLVIII, fig. a

Commentary

Sanzeno bowl.
Fine clay, from dark grey to brown in colour; moderate tempered of fine grained sand and cast gold at which that occurs more highly in various parts; reduction firing; burnished. High neck and the typical omphalos; restored by composing different fragments.
Between neck and belly decoration in form of two parallel, circumferential ribbons.
On one belly side, on transition to the bottom characters. The same characters inside, on the rim.
The find date, June 1906, given by Mancini is uncertain (cp. LIR: 112). Further find circumstances like exact find place are unknown.
In accord with the typology the bowl can be dated to the 3rd–2nd centuries BC.
Probably first published in Franz 1959: 228, pl. 2.5 (archaeological drawing of the bowl), however with particular regards to the inscription.
Autopsied by the Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum in November 2013.
S.K.

S.K.

Bibliography

Franz 1959	Leonhard Franz, "Rätische Inschriften im Innsbrucker Landesmuseum", Der Schlern 33 (1959), 228–229.
IR	Alberto Mancini, "Iscrizioni retiche", Studi Etruschi 43 (1975), 249–306.
LIR	Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes)