CO·79 Alzate Brianza

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Object
Classification:	cup
Archaeological Type:	black-varnished ware imit. type Lamboglia 28
Material:	pottery
Size:	unknown
Condition:	lost
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 2
Date:	80–1 BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Alzate Brianza (Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Villa del Soldo
Archaeological context:	grave 5
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 46' 20.33" N, 9° 11' 14.34" E
Find date:	1878
Current location:	unknown
Inscription:	CO·79 (uitilios)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 282 Solinas 1995: 52 Morandi 2004: 206
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 652 f. no. 206

Commentary

Image in Castelfranco 1879: tav. I.8 (drawing).

Black-varnished cup of reddish clay imit. type Lamboglia 28 (Morandi), found in the fifth grave at the Villa del Soldo, which was excavated by Castelfranco. It contained eight ceramic vessels, an iron knife, and assorted fragments (detailed description in Castelfranco 1879: 7–11, the cup on p. 10 G). The grave was reconstructed on site, but Rhŷs 1913: 39 f. failed to see the vessel during his visit to the Soldo in 1912, and was informed by Count Turati that it had been removed to a different residence; according to a letter from the count to Whatmough (PID: 98) in 1929, it was then kept in the Turati residence in via Conservatore in Milano. Filed as untraceable by Solinas and Morandi. Dating to LT D 2 from Morandi, confirmed by a specimen of NM·5 found in one of the four destroyed graves (Castelfranco 1879: 15).

Bibliography

Castelfranco 1879	Pompeo Castelfranco, "Tombe gallo-italiche trovate al Soldo presso Alzate in Brianza", Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 5 (1879), 6–28.