NO·22 San Bernardino di Briona
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| Classification: | gravel |
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| Material: | stone |
| Size: | length 17 cm, width 16 cm, thickness 15 cm |
| Condition: | complete |
| Autopsy by: | Corinna Salomon |
| Date of autopsy: | Apr 24 2024 |
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| Archaeological culture: | Golasecca II, Golasecca III A 1 |
| Date: | late 6th–early 5th c. BC |
| Date derived from: | typology, archaeological context |
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| Site: | San Bernardino di Briona (fraction of: Briona, Novara, Piemonte, Italy) |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 31' 12.00" N, 8° 32' 45.60" E [from site] |
| Find date: | 1989 |
| Current location: | Musei Reali – Museo di Antichità (Torino) |
| Inventory no.: | 57457 |
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| Inscription: | NO·22 (quormsklp) |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Rubat Borel 2006: 205 & 207 (fig. 3) |
Commentary
Images in Gambari 1998: 291, fig. 276 (photo = Rubat Borel 2005: 49), Rubat Borel 2011b: 392, fig. 7.23 (photo), Arcà & Rubat Borel 2024: 36, fig. 9 (photos and drawing).
Large, irregular roundish river pebble of serpentinite, found during earthworks on the western side of the necropolis of San Bernardino di Briona, south of Cascina Pierina, in the mounds of soil which were heaped up during the agricultural levelling of the area in 1918. According to Gambari 1998: 291, 300 f., n. 18, the stone was pulled from a clod of earth on the northern slope of tumulus XXXII, close to where an aniconic and anepigraphic specimen had been found in 1980 atop a chamber grave. Like the latter example, the stone was used as grave marker (cf. also Li 1.2 Genova). It features a drawing, executed with a hammering technique like the inscription, of a figure of a warrior stepping out and holding aloft a shield and spear, for which Gambari 1998: 291 compares the figures on the Hochdorf kline. Dating based on the larger archaeological context of the necropolis and the iconography (Gambari 1998: 291, Rubat Borel 2011b). See Spagnolo Garzoli & Gambari 2004: 218–220.
