VA·1 Ardena

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 17 cm, max. diam. 22 cm
Condition:	complete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Jan 27 2022
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C 2
Date:	first half of 2nd c. BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Ardena (fraction of: Brusimpiano, Varese, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Nava
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 56' 51.93" N, 8° 52' 49.08" E
Find date:	1938
Current location:	Museo civico archeologico di Villa Mirabello (Varese)
Inventory no.:	St 12250
Inscriptions:	VA·1.1 (kasiuos) VA·1.2 (ur)
Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 21 Solinas 1995: 113 Morandi 2004: 41
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 544 f. no. 41

Images

Bottle VA·1 Ardena from Morandi 1999	Bottle VA·1 Ardena from Morandi 2004	Inscription VA·1.2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966	Bottle VA·1 Ardena	Bottle VA·1 Ardena with inscription VA·1.2
Bottle VA·1 Ardena with inscription VA·1.1

Commentary

Images in Bertolone 1941: 27, fig. 4 (photo) and 28, fig. 5 (drawing), Morandi 1999: pl. X.1 (photo = Morandi 2004: tav. IX.41), Rapi 2009b: 213, fig. 1 (photo) and 214, fig. 2 (drawing).

Fiasca a trottola painted with horizontal brown stripes, found in a grave in the locality Nava. Dating from Rapi 2009b: 214 (cf. Negroni Catacchio 1975: 335 f. [type 7]). See also Bertolone 1941: 27 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 15.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Bertolone 1941	Mario Bertolone, "Nuove scoperte archeologiche della provincia di Varese", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como 123–124 (1940 [1941]), 21–36.