CO·12 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	patera
Material:	pottery
Size:	max. length 9 cm, max. width 8.5 cm, thickness 0.5–1 cm (of fragment)
Condition:	fragmentary
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 2 2025
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5th–early 4th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Prestino (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Rondineto
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 3.60" N, 9° 3' 25.20" E [from site]
Find date:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 16072
Inscription:	CO·12 (na?[/ot?[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 294 Solinas 1995: 85 Morandi 2004: 159
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 627–629

Images

Potsherd CO·12 Rondineto with inscription CO·12 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·12 Rondineto with inscription CO·12 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.18 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.6 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 280, tav. VIII.13a (photo), Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.159 (photo).

Two adjacent fragments (and a small splinter) of a ceramic vessel (part of the foot and bottom) of reddish clay (Garovaglio 1877: 35, no. 18), found at Rondineto in unspecified circumstances (Barelli 1877: 4). Generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti (De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214), cf. Morandi.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.
De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.