NO·4 Oleggio

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height (reconstructed) 15.6 cm, mouth diam. 4.8 cm
Condition:	broken, fragmentary, repaired
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C 2
Date:	third quarter of 2nd c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Oleggio (Novara, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	Loreto necropolis
Archaeological context:	grave 245
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 36' 40.81" N, 8° 38' 59.98" E
Find date:	1990–1995
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo Civico ‟Carlo Giacomo Franchini” (Oleggio)
Inventory no.:	St 74555
Inscription:	NO·4 (tutiọ[)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 80
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 575

Commentary

Images in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 265, fig. 299.8 (drawing), 20, fig. 3 (photo of grave furniture).

Two adjacent fragments of the neck and shoulder, apparently also of the foot and bottom (see photo), of a vaso a trottola, found in tomb 245 (male, cremation) of the Loreto necropolis, dated to late La Tène C 2 (Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 264, no. 8).

Bibliography

Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999	Angela Deodato, Elena Poletti Ecclesia, "Catalogo", in: Giuseppina Spagnolo Garzoli (ed.), Conubia gentium. La necropoli di Oleggio e la romanizzazione dei Vertamocori. Oleggio, Palazzo Bellini 23 gennaio - 30 aprile 1999, Torino: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologica del Piemonte 1999, 55–286.