VN-6 bone

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	bone
Size:	length: 11.1 cm, width: 1.9 cm, height: 2 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Date:	3rd–1st centuries BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
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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Current location:	Vintschger Museum / Museo della Val Venosta (on exhibition)
Inscription:	VN-6 (iiiiθiv)
Sources:	Gamper & Steiner 1999: 48–51, fig. 24.10

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Object VN-6 bone with inscription VN-6.

Object VN-6 bone.

Object VN-6 bone - detail.

Commentary

Animal bone of a sheep (Ovis orientalis aries) or a goat (Capra aegagrus hircus).
At one end broken, perforated.
Along characters.
Like all the bone findings on the Ganglegg hill the bone dates to 3rd–1st centuries BC (cp. Gamper & Steiner 1999: 50–51).

S.K.

Bibliography

Gamper & Steiner 1999	Peter Gamper, Hubert Steiner, Das Ganglegg bei Schluderns. Eine befestigte bronze- und eisenzeitliche Siedlung im oberen Vinschgau, Bozen: Athesia 1999.