CO·12 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable potsherd
Material:	pottery
Size:	length 9 cm, width 8.5 cm (of fragment)
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5th–early 4th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Rondineto (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 10.80" N, 9° 3' 36.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 16072
Inscription:	CO·12 (nap̣[/ot[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 294 Solinas 1995: 85 Morandi 2004: 159
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 627–629

Images

Potsherd CO·12 Rondineto with inscription CO·12 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·12 Rondineto with inscription CO·12 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.18 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.6 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 280, tav. VIII.13a (photo), Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.159 (photo).

Fragment of a ceramic vessel (part of the foot and bottom) of reddish clay (Garovaglio 1877: 35, no. 18), found at Rondineto in unspecified circumstances (Barelli 1877: 4). Generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti, cf. Morandi.

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.
De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.