BG·34 Verdello

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Object
Classification: cup

Material: pottery
Size: height 5.6 cm, rim diam. 12.8 cm
Condition: unknown

Archaeological culture: La Tène D, 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 10
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 139505

Inscription: BG·34 (ụitili)

Alternative sigla: Morandi 2004: 291

Sources: Morandi 2004: 713 f. no. 291

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Commentary

Unglazed cup or bowl found in grave 10 of the Colabiolo section of the Verdello necropolis. See Fortunati & Corti 2003: 169 for details about the grave and its inventory. Dating according to Fortunati 2007: 591 for Colabiolo; Morandi 2007: 300, no. 30 gives the late 2nd century BC.

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.