CO·4 Rondineto
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| Classification: | unidentifiable potsherd |
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| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | length 5 cm, width 3.5 cm (of fragment) |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
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| Archaeological culture: | Golasecca III A |
| Date: | 5th–early 4th c. BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| 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) |
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| Inscription: | CO·4 (]ạklẹ[) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 287 Solinas 1995: 78 Morandi 2004: 151 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 624 |
Images
 Garovaglio's drawing of CO·4 Rondineto with inscription CO·4 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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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, "attualmente irreperibile" by Morandi in 2004, and still untraceable as of April 2025.
Bibliography
| Barelli 1877 | Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32. |
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| 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. |
