CO·27 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable potsherd
Material:	pottery
Size:	length 9.5 cm, width 6.3 cm, thickness 0.9 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:	1875–1883
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 14213
Inscription:	CO·27 (tẹ[)
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 93 f Morandi 2004: 174
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 636

Images

Potsherd CO·27 Rondineto with inscription CO·27 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 282, tav. X.22 (photo).

Fragment of the foot of a ceramic vessel of reddish clay, found at Rondineto in unspecified context, but apparently in a tomb (Garovaglio 1883: 20, no. 6, 21). Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 201 f., no. 22 thinks that this is the object mentioned in Bertolone 1957: 64 sub Carate Lario, no. 2 (CO·70 Carate Urio) due to the similarity of the inscription (Bertolone having made a mistake); cf. Solinas 1995: 357, 93 f., who also cites the putative image of CO·70 in De Marinis. The two documents are, however, kept separate by Morandi, who gives different measurements and inventory numbers. 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

Bertolone 1957	Mario Bertolone, "Ancora sulla ceramica del Golasecca III A", Sibrium 3 (1956–1957), 55–71.
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.