BG·40 Caravaggio

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Object
Classification: bowl
Archaeological Type: black-glazed ware Lamboglia 28 / Morel 2685

Material: pottery
Size: height 6.2 cm, mouth diam. 17.2 cm, foot diam. 7.7 cm
Condition: complete
Autopsy by: Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy: Apr 27 2022

Archaeological culture: La Tène D
Date: 1st century BC
Date derived from: archaeological context

Site: Caravaggio (Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name: Campo de Croppe
Archaeological context: grave
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 29' 49.20" N, 9° 38' 38.40" E [from site]
Find date: 1865
Current location: Civico Museo Archeologico (Milano)
Inventory no.: A 0.9.5137

Inscription: BG·40 (to)

Alternative sigla: Solinas 1995: 35

Sources: Solinas 1995: 334 no. 35

Images

Commentary

Images in Tizzoni 1984: tav. III g (drawing), Frontini 1985: tav. 7.9 (drawing) and Olcese 1998: 331, tav. VII.8 (drawing).

Bowl of black-glazed ware, found in an isolated cist grave. See Castelfranco 1886: 239, Tizzoni 1984: 2, no. 1, Frontini 1985: 65, no. 2, and Sfredda 1998: 26 for detailed descriptions and dating. Dating from Fortunati 2007: 616; Tizzoni gives the second half of the 1st century BC, Frontini LT D1 (all for the grave as a whole). The object was part of the Castelfranco collection (no. 1153).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Castelfranco 1886 [Pompeo] Castelfranco, "Liguri-Galli e Galli-Romani della Transpadana", Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 12 (1886), 194–212, 228–257.
Fortunati 2007 Maria Fortunati, "Archeologia del territorio in età romana", in: Maria Fortunati, Raffaella Poggiani Keller (eds), Storia economica e sociale di Bergamo. I primi millenni – dalla preistoria al medioevo, Bergamo: 2007, II 559–626.
Frontini 1985 Patrizia Frontini, La ceramica a vernice nera nei contesti tombali della Lombardia [= Archeologia dell'Italia Settentrionale 3], Como: 1985.