PV·5 Zerbo

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Object
Classification:	cup
Archaeological Type:	mastos
Material:	silver
Size:	diam. 11.6 cm, height 7.5 cm
Condition:	complete, damaged
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:	1st c. BC (?)
Date derived from:	unknown
Site:	Zerbo (Pavia, Lombardia, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 6' 39.60" N, 9° 23' 49.20" E [from site]
Find date:	1912
Current location:	Musei Civici del Castello Visconteo (Pavia)
Inventory no.:	193
Inscription:	PV·5 (uecon:irumeli ps:sc:II)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 105
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 592–594

Commentary

Images in Stenico 1964: tav. IV, fig. 1 and 2 (photos), Tibiletti Bruno 1964: tav. V, fig. 1 (photo = Clauss-Slaby = CIL Archivum Corporis Electronicum).

Silver mastos, complete apart from a small hole in the bottom; current weight 210 g (Stenico 1964: 158). The association with the river Terdoppio (Mirabella Roberti 1962: VIII, no. 940, EDH HD017530) seems to be due to a confusion with a similar, anepigraphic object (Stenico 1964: 158–160, Tibiletti Bruno 1964: 184, n. 8, Morandi). Stenico 1964: 157 notes that the museum has no information about the find place, and that the object can only be said to be probably from the Lomellina; according to Morandi, who cites some literature which is inaccessible to me, it was found in an incineration grave in Zerbo in 1912. Dated to the 1^st century AD in Mirabella Roberti 1962: VIII, no. 940. Stenico 1964: 160–165 compares silver cups found at San Bernardo and dates them to the 2^nd century BC based on coin finds at the latter site; his dating is accepted by Tibiletti Bruno 1964: 184, but Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 173 reverts to the 1^st century AD. Morandi gives a dating to the late 2^nd–early 1^st century BC; EDH has 201 BC–50 AD.