BG·40 Caravaggio
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| Classification: | bowl |
| Archaeological Type: | black-glazed ware Lamboglia 28 / Morel 2685 |
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| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | height 6.2 cm, mouth diam. 17.2 cm, foot diam. 7.7 cm |
| Condition: | complete |
| Autopsy by: | Corinna Salomon |
| Date of autopsy: | Apr 27 2022 |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D |
| Date: | 1st century BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | Caravaggio (Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy) |
| Field name: | Campo de Croppe |
| Archaeological context: | grave |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 29' 49.20" N, 9° 38' 38.40" E [from site] |
| Find date: | 1865 |
| Current location: | Civico Museo Archeologico (Milano) |
| Inventory no.: | A 0.9.5137 |
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| Inscription: | BG·40 (to) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Solinas 1995: 35 |
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| Sources: | Solinas 1995: 334 no. 35 |
Images
 Bowl BG·40 Caravaggio with inscription BG·40
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 Bowl BG·40 Caravaggio
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Commentary
Images in Tizzoni 1984: tav. III g (drawing), Frontini 1985: tav. 7.9 (drawing) and Olcese 1998: 331, tav. VII.8 (drawing).
Bowl of black-glazed ware, found in an isolated cist grave. See Castelfranco 1886: 239, Tizzoni 1984: 2, no. 1, Frontini 1985: 65, no. 2, and Sfredda 1998: 26 for detailed descriptions and dating. Dating from Fortunati 2007: 616; Tizzoni gives the second half of the 1st century BC, Frontini LT D1 (all for the grave as a whole). The object was part of the Castelfranco collection (no. 1153).
Bibliography
| Castelfranco 1886 | [Pompeo] Castelfranco, "Liguri-Galli e Galli-Romani della Transpadana", Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 12 (1886), 194–212, 228–257. |
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| 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. |
