Li 1.2 Genova

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Object
Classification:	gravel
Material:	stone
Size:	max. length 28 cm, height 21 cm, thickness 10.9 cm
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:	middle of 5th century BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Genova (Genova, Liguria, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	44° 24' 17.07" N, 8° 55' 51.87" E
Find date:	1977
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	unknown
Inscription:	Li 1.2 (minemetịẹś)
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Bermond Montanari 1980: 296 f.

Commentary

Image in Bermond Montanari 1980b: LXXXVII a and b (photos).

Large, roughly oval gravel (ciottolone) of green serpentinite, smoothed at the base to stand stable. Found in the course of the excavations on the Colle di Castello of Genova, in one of a number of post holes which were uncovered, together with fireplaces, on the top of the hill (Bermond Montanari 1980b: 530 f.). Bermond Montanari assumes that the stone was a tomb marker which was at some point moved into the settlement context; cf. the similar ciottolone NO·22, the stone NO·29 from a settlement context, and the inscribed ceramics found in a post hole in Via Mantegna. The excavated pre-Roman necropolis of Genova dates between the 6^th and 4^th c. BC, but Bermond Montanari's dating of the stone to the 5^th century appears to be based on palaeography (see further on the inscription page).

• Milanese 1987: 71, 75-76 fig. 38, fig. 39 (pictures of the acrhaeological context and the archaeological object with inscription mi nemetieś)

De Simone 1980: 198, Piana Agostinetti 2004: 31

Bibliography

Bermond Montanari 1980	Giovanna Bermond Montanari, "Genua [REE]", Studi Etruschi 47 (1979 [1980]), 296–297.
Bermond Montanari 1980b	Giovanna Bermond Montanari, "Genova, Colle di Castello", Studi Etruschi 47 (1979 [1980]), 530–531.