UD·1 Verzegnis

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Object
Classification:	knife
Material:	iron
Size:	unknown
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:	2nd–1st century BC (?)
Date derived from:	palaeography
Site:	Verzegnis (Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy)
Field name:	Colle Mazéit
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 23' 39.07" N, 12° 58' 58.21" E
Find date:	1991
Find circumstances:	unauthorised diggings
Current location:	unknown
Inscription:	UD·1 (pi·rị·χio)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 299
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 717

Images

Knife UD·1 Verzegnis with inscription UD·1.

Commentary

Image in Vannacci Lunazzi 2001: 165, fig. 5.2 (drawing = Crevatin 2001: 117 = Vannacci Lunazzi 2013: 66, fig. 4,2).

The knife, together with an inscribed Venetic bronze tablet (Crevatin 1995: 71 f., Crevatin 2001: 116 f.), was found by metal detector by an unauthorised detectorist, probably on the plane north of the Mediaeval tower. In roughly the same area, numerous Noric Kleinsilbermünzen were found. A drawing was made before the object disappeared into the ancient art trade (Vannacci Lunazzi 2001: 152 f. with n. 17, Crevatin 1995: 71 with n. 3). The knife is described as of the late Celtic type, with a flat handle which is perforated at the end by Vannacci Lunazzi 2013: 69. The dating to the period of Romanisation, as suggested by Crevatin 2001: 117, is mainly based on the letter forms of the inscription, and maybe on the Celtic coins, which date from the middle of the 1^st c. BC to the first half of the 1^st c. AD.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Crevatin 1995	Franco Crevatin, "Nuovi testi venetici provenienti dal Friuli", Incontri Linguistici 18 (1995), 71–77.
Crevatin 2001	Franco Crevatin, "Le inscrizioni Venetiche del Friuli", in: Gino Bandelli, Federica Fontana (eds), Iulium Carnicum. Centro alpino tra Italia e Norico dalla protostoria all'età imperiale. Atti del Convegno, Arta Terme – Cividale, 29–30 settembre 1995 [= Studi e Ricerche sulla Gallia Cisalpina 13], Roma: Quasar 2001, 115-125.