BG·33 Verdello

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Object
Classification:	pitcher
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 16.5 cm
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 2
Date:	second half of 1st c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Verdello (Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Colabiolo
Archaeological context:	grave 6
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 139458
Inscription:	BG·33 (pe)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 290
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 713 no. 290

Commentary

Painted olpe found in grave 6 of the Colabiolo section of the Verdello necropolis. See Fortunati & Corti 2003: 167 for details about the grave and its inventory. The height is misprinted as 10.5 cm in Morandi 2004 (correct in Morandi 2003: 128, no. 6 and Morandi 2007: 300, no. 29). Dating according to Fortunati 2007: 591 for Colabiolo; Morandi gives the Augustan period (maybe because of the inscription's unusual letter forms?) in 2004, LT D1/2 in 2007.

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.