BG·31 Verdello

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Object
Classification: cup
Archaeological Type: black-glazed ware

Material: pottery
Size: height 4.5 cm, rim diam. 11.5 cm
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: La Tène D 2
Date: second half of 1st century BC
Date derived from: archaeological context

Site: Verdello (Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name: Colabiolo
Archaeological context: grave 4
(Objects: BG·30 Verdello, BG·31 Verdello)
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 36' 26.16" N, 9° 37' 49.39" E
Find date: 1996
Find circumstances: excavation
Finder: Soprintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia
Current location: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Lombardia (Bergamo)
Inventory no.: St 139484

Inscription: BG·31 (talu)

Alternative sigla: Morandi 2004: 288

Sources: Morandi 2004: 712 no. 288

Commentary

Image in Morandi 2003: 128, fig. 6 (photo).

Cup of black-glazed ware found in tomb 4 of the Colabiolo section of the Verdello necropolis. On the wall opposite the inscription, two vertical scratches (seen in the photo indicated above). See Fortunati & Corti 2003: 165 f. for details about the grave and its inventory. In the same grave was found BG·30 Verdello. Dating according to Fortunati 2007: 591 for Colabiolo; Morandi 2004 gives the 1st century BC, Morandi 2007: 299 (no. 27) LT D1/2.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Fortunati & Corti 2003 Maria Fortunati, Paolo Corti, "La necropoli nell'area del Colabiolo: lo scavo del 1996", in: Maria Fortunati, Lelio Pagani, Raffaella Poggiani Keller (eds), Verdello. Dalle origini all'altomedioevo. Ricerche archeologice e storiche, Verdello: 2003, 157–173.
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.