TI·12 Giubiasco

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 11.5 cm, max. diam 19 cm, foot diam. 7.4 cm
Condition:	complete, repaired
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Jul 20 2021
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	1st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Giubiasco (fraction of: Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Giubiasco necropolis
Archaeological context:	grave 143 (?)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 10' 39.46" N, 9° 0' 41.06" E
Find date:	March 13, 1901
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Domenico Pini
Current location:	Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum (Zürich)
Inventory no.:	A-14909
Inscription:	TI·12 (atilonei)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 263 Solinas 1995: 12 Motta 2000: 19 Morandi 2004: 13
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 526 f. no. 13

Images

Bottle TI·12 Giubiasco from Motta 2000

Detail of bottle TI·12 Giubiasco with inscription TI·12 from Solinas

Bottle TI·12 Giubiasco with inscription TI·12

Bottle TI·12 Giubiasco

Bottle TI·12 Giubiasco with inscription TI·12

Commentary

Images in Ulrich 1914 II: Taf. LX.7 (photo), Morandi 1999: pl. IV.1 (photo), Motta 2000: 211, fig. 16a (photo), Tori et al. 2010: pl. sub 143.8? (drawing).

The fiasca a trottola (type 3.2) comes from grave 143 of the Giubiasco necropolis, excavated by Domenico Pini under supervision, though the integrity of the grave complex is not entirely certain: the grave as a whole can be dated to LT B2–C1; the bottle is the only object dated to LT D and probably does not belong in this inventory (Tori et al. 2010: 280 f.; the grave complex is described in Tori et al. 2004: 175 f.). On the classification of the object see Tori et al. 2010: 216, 241, cat. 175. See also Ulrich 1914 I: 590.

The dating follows Tori et al. 2010; De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000: 461, no. 529 give the 2^nd–1^st century BC.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (eds), I leponti tra mito e realtà. Raccolta di saggi in occasione della mostra Locarno, Castello Visconteo - Casorella, 20 maggio - 3 dicembre 2000, Verbania: Armando Dadò Editore 2000.