TI·23 Locarno

Object
Classification:	pot
Archaeological Type:	olla

Material:	pottery
Size:	height 12 cm, max diam. 12 cm

Condition:	broken, repaired, incomplete

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	late 2^nd–1^st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology

Site:	Locarno (Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Solduno
Archaeological context:	grave D 38
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 10' 12.67" N, 8° 46' 42.25" E
Find date:	1939
Current location:	Museo Civico e Archeologico Castello Visconteo (Locarno)
Inventory no.:	134.1939.133

Inscription:	TI·23 (setupokios)

Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 5 Solinas 1995: 24 Motta 2000: 25 Morandi 2004: 24

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 532 no. 24

Images

Olla TI·23 Locarno from Motta

Olla TI·23 Locarno

Olla TI·23 Locarno with inscription TI·23

Olla TI·23 Locarno

Images in Stöckli 1975: 177, pl. 39 (D38), Morandi 1999: 192, p. V.1 (photo = Motta 2000: 214, fig. 22a = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VII.24).

Olla, broken into many fragments, but repaired and almost complete, found in the Solduno necropolis; according to Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 159, the grave is that of a woman. Dating according to Morandi 1999: 166, no. 9, following Stöckli and Crivelli; differently (3^rd c. BC) Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 159 and Solinas 1995: 329 (cf. TI·25 Locarno). See also Stöckli 1975: 53, n. 5, Crivelli 1939: 198–200, Crivelli 1943, Crivelli Società Archeologica Comense 1982, De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000: 462, no. 538.

Crivelli 1939	Aldo Crivelli, "La necropoli preromana di Solduno", Rivista Storica Ticinese 2/3 (1939), 193–200.
De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (eds), I leponti tra mito e realtà. Raccolta di saggi in occasione della mostra Locarno, Castello Visconteo - Casorella, 20 maggio - 3 dicembre 2000, Verbania: Armando Dadò Editore 2000.