CO·2 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable potsherd
Material:	pottery
Size:	max. length 8.7 cm, max. width 7.7 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' 10.86" N, 9° 3' 34.56" E
Find date:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 15052
Inscription:	CO·2 (]ạḳụṛ[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 285 Solinas 1995: 76 Morandi 2004: 149
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 623 f.

Images

Potsherd CO·2 Rondineto with inscription CO·2 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·2 Rondineto with inscription CO·2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.12 (drawing by Giuseppe Massuero), Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.19 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.2 (drawing cpoied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18a (drawing copied from Massuero), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 283, tav. XI.25 (photo), Morandi 2004: 799, tav. XXII.149 (photo).

Fragment of part of the foot and bottom of an unvarnished ceramic vessel (probably a patera) of reddish clay (Garovaglio 1877: 35, no. 19), found at Rondineto in unspecified context (see Barelli 1877b: 102, Barelli 1877: 4). Dated to the 5^th/4^th c. BC by Morandi based on typology (of what?) and palaeography; generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti (De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.
Barelli 1877b	Vincenzo Barelli, "II. Como", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1877), 101–106.
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.