NO·1 Castelletto sopra Ticino
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| Classification: | beaker |
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| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | height 7.6 cm, max. diam. 8.6 cm, foot diam. 3.4 cm |
| Condition: | complete, damaged, broken, repaired |
| Autopsy by: | Corinna Salomon |
| Date of autopsy: | Apr 24 2024 |
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| Archaeological culture: | Golasecca II A |
| Date: | second quarter of 6th c. BC |
| Date derived from: | typology, archaeological context |
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| Site: | Castelletto sopra Ticino (Novara, Piemonte, Italy) |
| Archaeological context: | grave 5 |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 42' 41.53" N, 8° 37' 56.95" E |
| Find date: | 1985 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Finder: | Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte |
| Current location: | Musei Reali – Museo di Antichità (Torino) |
| Inventory no.: | St 51899 |
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| Inscription: | NO·1 (§χosioiso §) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Solinas 1995: 113 bis Morandi 2004: 74 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 569–571 no. 74 |
Images
 Drawing of beaker NO·1 Castelletto sopra Ticino from Gambari & Colonna 1988
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 Photo of beaker NO·1 Castelletto sopra Ticino with symbol from Gambari & Colonna 1988
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 Beaker NO·1 Castelletto sopra Ticino with inscription NO·1
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 Beaker NO·1 Castelletto sopra Ticino with mark on the foot
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 Symbol after inscription NO·1
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Commentary
Images in Gambari & Colonna 1988: 122, fig. 3 (drawing) and tav. 45 b (detail photo), Gambari 2004: 308, fig. 3 (photo), Gambari 2018: 35, fig. 3 (photo).
Found in 1985 in the course of a rescue excavation in Via Aronzo (Cascina Baraggia, the site of the scuola materna) in the centre of Castelletto Ticino, in a grave belonging to a small Golaseccan necropolis. While the majority of the graves were unprotected and dated to G I C (7th c. BC), grave 5 in the centre is a cist grave constructed of local granite slabs with a complete inventory related to a male (see Gambari & Colonna 1988: 120–126), which can be dated to the second quarter of 6th c. BC (late G II A). The globular beaker with outward-bent rim and concave foot was deposited inside the urn together with the ashes and the metal objects, and was thus probably a personal objects of the deceased (Gambari & Colonna 1988: 120, 126).
Bibliography
| Gambari & Colonna 1988 | Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il bicchiere con iscrizione arcaica da Castelletto Ticino e l'adozione della scrittura nell'Italia nord-occidentale", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119–164. |
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| Gambari 2004 | Filippo Maria Gambari, "I signori del commercio sulle vie d'acqua. Il ruolo degli scambi nella cultura di Golasecca", in: Franco Marzatico, Paul Gleirscher (eds), Guerrieri, principi ed eroi fra il Danubio e il Po dalla preistoria all'alto medioevo, Trento: Castello del Buonconsiglio 2004, 304–313. |
| Gambari 2018 | Filippo M. Gambari, "Un alfabeto antico per lingue nuove. Le prime attestazioni delle lingue celtiche nelle epigrafi preromane della lombardia occidentale", in: Cristina Miedico (ed.), Le voci degli altri. Linguaggi, parole e alfabeti inconsueti nella Lombardia antica, Angera: 2018, 31–41. |
