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 century 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.