VA·15 Arsago Seprio

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	patera imit. Lamboglia 5/7 / Morel 2284
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 6.5 cm, mouth diam. max. 29 cm (reconstructed)
Condition:	damaged, repaired
Archaeological culture:	Augustan
Date:	late 1st c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Arsago Seprio (Varese, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Sant'Ambrogio
Archaeological context:	grave 8bis/1986–7 (ustrinum) (Objects: VA·14 Arsago Seprio, VA·15 Arsago Seprio, VA·16 Arsago Seprio, VA·17 Arsago Seprio)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 41' 1.31" N, 8° 44' 2.68" E
Find date:	1986–1987
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Soprintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia
Current location:	Civico Museo Archeologico (Arsago Seprio)
Inventory no.:	St 61514
Inscription:	VA·15 (?i)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 115
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 600 f. no. 115

Images

Patera VA·15 Arsago Seprio

Patera VA·15 Arsago Seprio with inscription VA·15

Commentary

Images in Veronesi 1990: tav. XIXg (drawing).

Unglazed patera imitating type Lamboglia 5/7 / Morel 2283, found in the ustrinum of grave 8bis (excavation 1986/1987) of the Sant'Ambrogio necropolis; see Binaghi Leva 1990: 37, 56–59 for details about graves 8 and 8bis, the finds and a description of the object p. 58 (also Volontè Fredini 1990: 71). From the same context VA·14 Arsago Seprio, VA·16 Arsago Seprio and VA·17 Arsago Seprio. Dating from Binaghi Leva 1990; Morandi 2004 gives La Tène D2.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Binaghi Leva 1988	Maria Adelaide Binaghi Leva, "Arsago Seprio (Varese). Località S. Ambrogio, via Roma. Necropoli celtica", Notiziario della Soprintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia (1987 [1988]), 38–40.
Binaghi Leva 1990	Maria Adelaide Binaghi Leva, "Classificazione tipologica dei corredi", in: Giordano Veronesi (ed.), Arsago. Nullus in Insubria pagus vetustior. Studi in memoria di Silvio Pozzi, Varese: Edizioni Lativa 1990, 34–60.