CO·7 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	patera
Material:	pottery
Size:	max. length 13.5 cm, max. width 11 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' 3.60" N, 9° 3' 25.20" E [from site]
Find date:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 15051
Inscription:	CO·7 (sḷ?[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 290 Solinas 1995: 81 Morandi 2004: 154
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 625 f.

Images

Garovaglio's drawing of CO·7 Rondineto with inscription CO·7 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.15 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 281, tav. IX.16), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.11 (drawing copied from Garovaglio).

Fragment of the bottom and foot of a ceramic bowl of reddish clay with (at least) one stamped rosette on the inside (Garovaglio 1877: 35, no. 15), found at Rondineto in unspecified circumstances (Barelli 1877: 4, Barelli 1877: 19; in the "sepolcreto" according to Poggi 1879: 311, but cf. CO·5 Rondineto). Generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti (De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214). Reported untraceable by Rhŷs 1914: 8 and not seen by TB, but resurfaced by the early 2000s (Morandi).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.
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.