CO·4 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable potsherd
Material:	pottery
Size:	length 5 cm, width 3.5 cm (of fragment)
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5th–early 4th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Rondineto (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
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:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inscription:	CO·4 (]ạklẹ[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 287 Solinas 1995: 78 Morandi 2004: 151
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 624

Images

Garovaglio's drawing of CO·4 Rondineto with inscription CO·4 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.14 (drawing by Giuseppe Massuero), Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.20 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 284, tav. XII.26), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.4 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18c (drawing copied from Massuero).

Fragment of the rim of a ceramic vessel of reddish clay (Garovaglio 1877: 36, no. 20), found at Rondineto in a (presumed) tomb near the Camera grande, together with CO·3 Rondineto (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). Ought to be in the Museo Paolo Giovio with the other finds from Rondineto, but reported untraceable already by Rhŷs 1914: 8, still "attualmente irreperibile" by Morandi.

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.