CO·15 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Material:	pottery
Size:	length 2.8 cm (of fragment)
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5th–early 4th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Rondineto (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Archaeological context:	Palazzuola structure (Objects: CO·6 Rondineto, CO·8 Rondineto, CO·15 Rondineto, CO·16 Rondineto)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 17.78" N, 9° 3' 31.32" E
Find date:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 14238
Inscription:	CO·15 (]ọịṣ[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 296 bis Solinas 1995: 88 Morandi 2004: 162
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 630

Images

Garovaglio's first drawing of CO·15 Rondineto with inscription CO·15 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Garovaglio's second drawing of CO·15 Rondineto with inscription CO·15 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Bergamaschi's drawing of CO·15 Rondineto with inscription CO·15 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Potsherd CO·15 Rondineto with inscription CO·15 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.41 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.3a), Barelli 1878/Garovaglio 1878: tav. III.16 (drawing [mirrored] = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.3b [as original] and 3c [corrected]), Barelli 1878b: tav. XIII.22 (drawing by Giovanni Bergamaschi = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.3d), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.6 (drawing copied from Garovaglio 1877), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.3e (photo).

Small fragment of the foot of a ceramic vessel of blackish clay (Garovaglio 1877: 36, no. 41, who took the letter omicron for a leaf decoration, Garovaglio 1878: 37, no. 16; a bowl according to Gambari & Colonna 1988: 161, no. 5, probably based on comparison with CO·6 Rondineto), found at Rondineto in a structure near the Palazzuola area – the structure is identified as a tomb by Barelli 1878: 13–15, Barelli 1878b: 29 f., but may in fact be a building (cf. CO·6 Rondineto). Coordinates based on the map in Luraschi et al. 1969 (entry no. 37, p. 225 f.). See Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 180–184 on the inclusion of the fragment in the first publications (both 1877 and 1878), which indicates that some of the material published in 1878 had already been found by mid-1877. Generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti (De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214); the structure is dated specifically to Golasecca A III 1–2 by Gambari & Colonna 1988: 161, no. 4 & 5 (cf. Solinas, Morandi 5^th c.).

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.
Barelli 1878	Vincenzo Barelli, "Nuove scoperte in Rondineto, comune di Breccia dal luglio 1877 in poi", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 13 (1878), 1–27.
Barelli 1878b	Vincenzo Barelli, "IV. Rondineto", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1878), 201–224.
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.
Gambari & Colonna 1988	Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il bicchiere con iscrizione arcaica da Castelletto Ticino e l'adozione della scrittura nell'Italia nord-occidentale", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119–164.