VN-15 bone
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| Classification: | unidentifiable |
| Material: | bone |
| Size: | length: 5.8 cm, width: 2.1 cm, height: 1.6 cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
| Date: | 3rd–1st centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | Schluderns / Sluderno (Bozen / Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy) |
| Field name: | Ganglegg |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 40' 18.23" N, 10° 35' 18.96" E |
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| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Current location: | Vintschger Museum / Museo della Val Venosta (on exhibition) |
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| Inscription: | VN-15 (?/]χ̣ạ) |
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| Sources: | Schumacher 2004: 323–324, 361 pl. 13.7 |
Images
 Object VN-15 bone with inscription VN-15.
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 Object VN-15 bone.
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Commentary
Animal bone of a sheep (Ovis orientalis aries) or a goat (Capra aegagrus hircus).
Broken at one side, perforated.
Along an inscription.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).
Bibliography
| Gamper & Steiner 1999 | Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999. |
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