BG·49 Caravaggio

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Object
Classification:	pot
Archaeological Type:	pyxis (type Lamb. 3)
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 6 cm, max. diam. 8.8 cm, foot diam. 7.6 cm
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1
Date:	late 2nd–early 1st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Caravaggio (Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Cantacucco
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 30' 21.54" N, 9° 41' 0.13" E
Find date:	unknown
Current location:	Civico Museo Archeologico (Bergamo)
Inventory no.:	2185
Inscription:	BG·49 (piuo)
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	De Marinis & Motta 2007: 135 f.

Commentary

Image in De Marinis & Motta 2007: 154, fig. 1.1 (drawing).

Unpainted pyxis at the Archaeological Museum in Bergamo, according to the records from the Cantacucco property. De Marinis notes that this seems suspicious infofar as Cantacucco is the site of a Langobardian necropolis from which no La Tène finds are otherwise known, but points out that Cantacucco is the same distance from Caravaggio as the Campo de Croppe, the unidentified find place of a late La Tène grave containing BG·40. The late La Tène necropolis of Brolo is about a kilometre away. Dating from De Marinis p. 136.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

De Marinis & Motta 2007	Raffaele C. de Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Iscrizioni del II e I secolo a.C. dal territorio insubre e cenomane", in: Francesca Moradini, Marina Volonté (eds), Contributi di archeologia in memoria di Mario Mirabella Roberti. Cavriana 15–16 ottobre 2005 [= Annali Benacensi 13–14], Brescia: 2007, 135–160.