CO·9 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	patera
Material:	pottery
Size:	max. length 5.9 cm, max. width 6.9, thickness 0.7 cm (of fragment)
Condition:	fragmentary
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 2 2025
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5th–early 4th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Prestino (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Rondineto
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 3.60" N, 9° 3' 25.20" E [from site]
Find date:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 14234
Inscription:	CO·9 (p̣ạ[)
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 94 a Morandi 2004: 156
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 626

Images

Potsherd CO·9 Rondineto with inscription CO·9 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.40 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.14 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 277, tav. V.6 (photo).

Fragment of an unvarnished vessel of blackish clay (Garovaglio 1877: 36, no. 40), found in Rondineto in unspecified circumstances (Barelli 1877: 4). Garovaglio's drawing inaccurately shows a complete rim, where the fragment only preserves a slight curvature. Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 188 identifies the fragment as that of a foot, but it looks more like part of a wall – probably of a patera considering the flatness, cf. Morandi – with the edge of the rim. Generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti (De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214), cf. Morandi.

Corinna Salomon

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.