TI·13 Giubiasco

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 12.5 cm, max. diam. 18.3 cm, foot diam. 7.8 cm
Condition:	complete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Jul 19 2021
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	late 2nd–1st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Giubiasco (fraction of: Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Giubiasco necropolis
Archaeological context:	"grave" 21
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 10' 40.01" N, 9° 0' 43.17" E
Find date:	October–December 1900
Find circumstances:	unsupervised excavation
Finder:	Domenico Pini
Current location:	Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum (Zürich)
Inventory no.:	A-13988
Inscription:	TI·13 (pirạụịχeś)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 261 Solinas 1995: 10 Motta 2000: 24 Morandi 2004: 14
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 527 no. 14

Images

Bottle TI·13 Giubiasco with inscription TI·13 from Motta

Detail of bottle TI·13 Giubiasco with inscription TI·13 from Solinas

Bottle TI·13 Giubiasco with inscription TI·13

Commentary

Images in Morandi 1999: pl. IV.2 (photo), Motta 2000: 213, fig. 21 (drawing), Tori et al. 2010: pl. sub 21.9 (drawing).

The fiasca a trottola (type 3.2) comes from one of the graves which were excavated by Domenico Pini without supervision; the inventory includes objects from different periods and is probably not authentic (Tori et al. 2004: 62, 64, Tori et al. 2010: 261 f.; the grave complex is described in Tori et al. 2004: 101 f.). On the classification of the object see Pernet et al. 2006: 223–225, 264, cat. 91. See also Ulrich 1914 I: 545.

The dating follows Pernet et al. 2006; De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000: 462, no. 530 give the late 2^nd–early 1^st century BC.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (eds), I leponti tra mito e realtà. Raccolta di saggi in occasione della mostra Locarno, Castello Visconteo - Casorella, 20 maggio - 3 dicembre 2000, Verbania: Armando Dadò Editore 2000.