CO·13 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	patera
Material:	pottery
Size:	max. length 11 cm, max. width 6.5 cm, thickness 0.6 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
Archaeological context:	tomb 3 (1879)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 11.40" N, 9° 3' 36.80" E
Find date:	1879
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 16074
Inscription:	CO·13 (]?r?(?)ṃụ?[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 295 Solinas 1995: 86 Morandi 2004: 160
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 629

Images

Potsherd CO·13 Rondineto with inscription CO·13 from Morandi 2004

Garovaglio's drawing of CO·13 Rondineto with inscription CO·13 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Potsherd CO·13 Rondineto with inscription CO·13 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1879/Garovaglio 1879: tav. II.c (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 278, tav. VI.8a), Rhŷs 1914: pl. III (photo), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 278, tav. VI.8b (photo = Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.160).

Originally two fragments of the bottom of a patera (Garovaglio 1879: 19 c); the smaller fragment, seen in Garovaglio's drawing on the left, is now missing (already Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 189), and a small piece of the inside surface has chipped off on the right side of the larger fragment (April 2025; still present in Morandi's photo). Found at Rondineto in a tomb near the Camera grande (see Barelli 1879: 17). Coordinates according to the map in Luraschi et al. 1969 (entry no. 46, p. 226). Generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti (De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214; Morandi: "V sec. a. C. inoltrato").

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Barelli 1879	Vincenzo Barelli, "Altre scoperte preromane in Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 15 (1879), 14–18.
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.