BG·40 Caravaggio

edit with form

Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	black-glazed ware Lamboglia 28 / Morel 2685
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 6.2 cm, mouth diam. 17.2 cm, foot diam. 7.7 cm
Condition:	complete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 27 2022
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	1st century BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Caravaggio (Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Campo de Croppe
Archaeological context:	grave
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 29' 49.20" N, 9° 38' 38.40" E [from site]
Find date:	1865
Current location:	Civico Museo Archeologico (Milano)
Inventory no.:	A 0.9.5137
Inscription:	BG·40 (to)
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 35
Sources:	Solinas 1995: 334 no. 35

Images

Bowl BG·40 Caravaggio with inscription BG·40

Bowl BG·40 Caravaggio

Commentary

Images in Tizzoni 1984: tav. III g (drawing), Frontini 1985: tav. 7.9 (drawing).

Bowl of black-glazed ware, found in an isolated cist grave. See Castelfranco 1886: 239, Tizzoni 1984: 2, no. 1 and Frontini 1985: 65, no. 2 for detailed descriptions. Dating from Fortunati 2007: 616; Tizzoni gives the second half of the 1^st century BC, Frontini LT D1 (all for the grave as a whole). The object was part of the Castelfranco collection (no. 1153).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Castelfranco 1886	[Pompeo] Castelfranco, "Liguri-Galli e Galli-Romani della Transpadana", Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 12 (1886), 194–212, 228–257.
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.
Frontini 1985	Patrizia Frontini, La ceramica a vernice nera nei contesti tombali della Lombardia [= Archeologia dell'Italia Settentrionale 3], Como: 1985.