TI·22 Locarno

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 11.4 cm, mouth diam. 2.8 cm, foot diam. 7.2 cm
Condition:	damaged
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	late 2nd–1 st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Locarno (Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Solduno
Archaeological context:	grave B 5
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 10' 5.62" N, 8° 46' 52.05" E
Find date:	1938
Current location:	Museo Civico e Archeologico Castello Visconteo (Locarno)
Inventory no.:	134.1938.372
Inscription:	TI·22 (kr)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 22
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 531 no. 22

Images

Bottle TI·22 Locarno from Morandi

Fiasca a trottola TI·22 Locarno

Fiasca a trottola TI·22 Locarno with inscription TI·22

Fiasca a trottola TI·22 Locarno

Commentary

Images in Stöckli 1975: pl. 35 (B5), Morandi 1999: 193, pl. VI.2 (photo).

Damaged, but largely complete unpainted fiasca a trottola from the Solduno necropolis (via del Passetto). Dating according to De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000: : 462, no. 541. See also Stöckli 1975: 54, no. 14, Crivelli 1939, Crivelli 1943: 58.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.