CO·18 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable potsherd
Material:	pottery
Size:	length 6.7 cm, width 4.5 cm, thickness 0.8 cm (of fragment)
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5th–early 4th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Rondineto
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 10.80" N, 9° 3' 36.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 16058
Inscription:	CO·18 (ụọ[)
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 94 o Morandi 2004: 165
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 631

Images

Potsherd CO·18 Rondineto with inscription CO·18 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.28 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.15 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 286, tav. XIV.33 (photo).

Fragment of the wall of a ceramic vessel (Garovaglio 1877: 36, no. 28), found at Rondineto in unspecified circumstances (see 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).

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.