AS 3.1 Castelnuovo Berardenga

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Object
Classification: cup
Archaeological Type: kotyle

Material: pottery
Size: height 7.6 cm, mouth diam. 10.7 cm, base diam. 4.6 cm
Condition: complete, broken, repaired

Archaeological culture: unknown
Date: second half of 7th c. BC
Date derived from: typology

Site: Castelnuovo Berardenga (Siena, Toscana, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.): 43° 19' 4.37" N, 11° 26' 42.07" E
Find date: 1980
Find circumstances: excavation
Current location: unknown
Inventory no.: 108731

Inscription: AS 3.1 (minimu?uvanikekeivale)

Alternative sigla: none

Sources: Mangani 1986: 277–279

Commentary

Image in Mangani 1986: tav. XLII.3 (photo).

Bucchero cup with handles ("pisside-kotyle") with decoration incised before firing, entirely reconstructed from fragments. Found in October 1980 in a cist grave on the Poggione hill, together with another, almost identical cup (see Mangani 1986: 277 f., no. 2, with a description and further literature). Dating from Mangani, Gambari & Colonna 1988: 154 and Sassatelli 2008: 338.

Corinna Salomon

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