TI·25 Locarno

Object
Classification:	pot
Archaeological Type:	olla

Material:	pottery
Size:	height 12 cm, mouth diam. 6.5 cm

Condition:	broken, repaired, incomplete

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	late 2^nd–1^st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology

Site:	Locarno (Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Solduno
Archaeological context:	grave D 35
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 10' 12.67" N, 8° 46' 42.25" E
Find date:	1939
Current location:	Museo Civico e Archeologico Castello Visconteo (Locarno)
Inventory no.:	134.1939.123

Inscription:	TI·25 (anteśilu)

Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 6 Solinas 1995: 25 Motta 2000: 26 Morandi 2004: 23

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 531 f. no. 23

Images

Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25 from Solinas

Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25

Olla TI·25 Locarno

Images in Stöckli 1975: 176, pl. 38 (D35), Morandi 1999: 192, p. V.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VI.23).

Olla, broken into many fragments, but repaired and almost complete, found in the Solduno necropolis; according to Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 159, the grave is that of a man. Dating according to De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000: 462, no. 537; differently (3^rd c. BC) Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 159 and Solinas 1995: 330 (cf. TI·23 Locarno). See also Stöckli 1975: 53, no. 7, Crivelli 1939: 198–200, Crivelli 1943.

Crivelli 1939	Aldo Crivelli, "La necropoli preromana di Solduno", Rivista Storica Ticinese 2/3 (1939), 193–200.
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.
Giussani 1940	Antonio Giussani, "Epigrafi nord-etrusche e romane del nostro territorio", Rivista archeologica della provincia e antica diocesi di Como 123–124 (1940), 5–20.