CO·3 Rondineto

Object
Classification:	unidentifiable potsherd

Material:	pottery
Size:	length 6 cm, width 3.9 cm (of fragment), rim thickness 2.2 cm

Condition:	fragmentary
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 2 2025

Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5^th–early 4^th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context

Site:	Prestino (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Rondineto
Archaeological context:	tomb (1877) (Objects: CO·3 Rondineto, CO·4 Rondineto)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 11.42" N, 9° 3' 35.63" E
Find date:	1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 15053

Inscription:	CO·3 (]ouki?[)

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 286 Solinas 1995: 77 Morandi 2004: 150

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 624

Images

Potsherd CO·3 Rondineto with inscription CO·3 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.13 (drawing by Giuseppe Massuero), Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.21 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.7 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18b (drawing copied from Massuero), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 286, tav. XIV.37 (photo).

Fragment of the rim and part of the wall of a red-varnished ceramic vessel (Garovaglio 1877: 36, no. 21), found at Rondineto in a (presumed) tomb near the Camera grande, together with CO·4 Rondineto (see Barelli 1877: 13, Barelli 1877b: 102, Luraschi et al. 1969: 230 f., no. 48). Generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti (De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214).

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.