CO·47 Breccia

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	patera
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 4.5 cm, diam. 16.5 cm, foot diam. 9 cm
Condition:	complete, broken, repaired
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 2
Date:	second half of 5th c. BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Breccia (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Cava Butti
Archaeological context:	tomba II
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 47' 18.29" N, 9° 3' 28.69" E
Find date:	1930
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inscription:	CO·47 (pa)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 278 bis Solinas 1995: 54 Morandi 2004: 179
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 638 no. 179

Images

Drawing of CO·47 Breccia from Bertolone 1957

CO·47 Breccia with inscription CO·47 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

CO·47 Breccia with horse stamps from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Baserga 1931: 60, fig. 8 (photo), Bertolone 1957: tav. 34.3 (drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: tav. 28 and 29 (photos), De Marinis & Premoli Silva 1969: tav. XXV.8 (drawing).

Red-varnished bowl with inward-bent rim, restored from three fragments; on the inside near the rim two impressed cross-shaped marks and a pair of horses (cf. CO·73 Civiglio; Bertolone 1957: 59, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 235, no. 78). Found in autumn of 1930 in the second of two graves excavated in the Cava Butti, a site of the Ca' Morta necropolis, together with assorted ceramic and bronze grave furniture and an iron knife blade (see Baserga 1931: 55 f., De Marinis & Premoli Silva 1969: 159 f.). The red-varnished patere and the grave are dated to "Golasecca III – fase media (IV secolo a.C.)" in De Marinis & Premoli Silva 1969: 155 f.

Bibliography

Baserga 1931	Giovanni Baserga, "Recenti scoperte in comune di Breccia", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como. Antichità ed Arte 102–104 (1931), 53–61.
Bertolone 1957	Mario Bertolone, "Ancora sulla ceramica del Golasecca III A", Sibrium 3 (1956–1957), 55–71.
De Marinis & Premoli Silva 1969	Raffaele De Marinis, Donatella Premoli Silva, "Revisione di vecchi scavi nella necropoli della Ca' Morta", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como 150–151 (1968–1969 [1969]), 99–200.