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

Images

Detail of BG·34 Verdello with inscription BG·34 from Morandi 2004

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 2^nd 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.