BG·29 Verdello

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Object
Classification:	cup
Archaeological Type:	terra sigillata patera Goudineau 1
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 2.1 cm, mouth diam. 12 cm (reconstructed)
Condition:	broken, fragmentary, repaired
Archaeological culture:	Roman republican period
Date:	second half of 1st century BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Verdello (Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Colabiolo
Archaeological context:	grave 3 (Objects: BG·29 Verdello, BG·32 Verdello)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 36' 26.16" N, 9° 37' 49.39" E
Find date:	1996
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Soprintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia
Current location:	Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Lombardia (Bergamo)
Inventory no.:	St 139486
Inscription:	BG·29 (tau)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 286
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 711 no. 286

Commentary

Image in Perani 2003: 189, fig. 4.37 (drawing = Jorio 2003: 206, fig. 1.5), Morandi 2003: 125, fig. 2 (photo).

Nine small fragments forming part of a terra sigillata patera (referred to as a coppetta in Morandi 2003: 125, no. 2) found in tomb 3 of the Colabiolo section of the Verdello necropolis. See Perani 2003: 188–190, no. 37 for a detailed description, and ibid. 184–192 and Fortunati & Corti 2003: 163 f. for details about the grave and its inventory. In the same grave was found BG·32 Verdello as well as a bowl of black-glazed ware (St 139459) bearing a Latin graffito (Morandi 2003: 125, no. 1 and fig. 1). Dating according to Fortunati 2007: 591 for Colabiolo; Morandi 2004 gives the 1^st century BC, but see also Jorio 2003: 205.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Fortunati & Corti 2003	Maria Fortunati, Paolo Corti, "La necropoli nell'area del Colabiolo: lo scavo del 1996", in: Maria Fortunati, Lelio Pagani, Raffaella Poggiani Keller (eds), Verdello. Dalle origini all'altomedioevo. Ricerche archeologice e storiche, Verdello: 2003, 157–173.
Fortunati 2007	Maria Fortunati, "Archeologia del territorio in età romana", in: Maria Fortunati, Raffaella Poggiani Keller (eds), Storia economica e sociale di Bergamo. I primi millenni – dalla preistoria al medioevo, Bergamo: 2007, II 559–626.