Li 1.2 Genova

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Object
Classification:	gravel
Material:	stone
Size:	max. height 28 cm, width 21 cm, thickness 10.9 cm
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:	5th c. 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

Images in Bermond Montanari 1980b: LXXXVII a and b (photos), Milanese 1987: 75, fig. 38 (drawing of the find spot) and 76, fig. 39 (photo in situ), Arcà & Rubat Borel 2024: 37, fig. 10 (photo).

Large, roughly oval gravel (ciottolone) of green serpentinite, found in the course of the excavations on the Colle di Castello of Genova (see Milanese 1987: 71–111), 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., sector O1, stratum IV according to Milanese 1987: 71 and Colonna 2004: 303). There seems to be agreement that the stone was stood upright (Colonna 2004: 303, Arcà & Rubat Borel 2024: 37). Bermond Montanari and Rubat Borel ibid. assume that the stone was a tomb marker which was at some point moved into the settlement context; differently Sassatelli 2008: 338, who considers the stone to be a weight. Cf. the similar ciottolone NO·22 San Bernardino di Briona, the stone NO·29 Castelletto Ticino from a settlement context, and the inscribed ceramics found in a post hole in Via Mantegna.

The stratum in which the stone was found is dated to the 5^th century in Milanese 1987: 71. See the inscription page on the palaeographical dating.

Corinna Salomon

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.
Colonna 2004	Giovanni Colonna, "Catalogo delle iscrizioni preromane di Genova", in: Raffaele C. de Marinis, Giuseppina Spadea, I Liguri. Un antico popolo europeo tra Alpi e Mediterraneo, Milano: Skira 2004, 302–307.