CO·7 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable potsherd
Material:	pottery
Size:	length 13 cm, width 9.5 cm, thickness 1 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)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 10.80" N, 9° 3' 36.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1875–1877
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 15037
Inscription:	CO·7 (sḷạ[)
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 of a black-varnished ceramic bowl of reddish clay with a stamped rosette (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).

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.