TI·14 Giubiasco

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 16 cm, max. diam. ca. 18 cm, mouth diam. 3.3 cm, foot diam 9.5 cm
Condition:	complete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Aug 18 2021
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C
Date:	second half of 3rd–first half of 2nd c. BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Giubiasco (fraction of: Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Giubiasco necropolis
Archaeological context:	"grave" 261
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 10' 22.80" N, 9° 0' 39.60" E [from site]
Find date:	in or before 1901
Find circumstances:	unknown
Finder:	unknown
Current location:	Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Mainz)
Inventory no.:	O.16376
Inscription:	TI·14 (plai/p)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 15
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 527 f. no. 15

Images

Bottle TI·14 Giubiasco with inscription TI·14 from Crivelli

Bottle TI·14 Giubiasco from Morandi 1999

Detail of bottle TI·14 Giubiasco with inscription TI·14 from Morandi 1999

Bottle TI·14 Giubiasco

Bottle TI·14 Giubiasco with inscription TI·14

Commentary

Images in Crivelli 1977: tav. 1 (drawing = Morandi 1999: 165, fig. 4), Morandi 1999: pl. XVII.1 (photo).

The fiasca a trottola, painted with five concentric brown lines, is one of the objects claimed by Domenico Pini to have been excavated by him in June/July 1901 at the Giubiasco necropolis, but may have been bought, or found at nearby Pianezzo (Tori et al. 2004: 27 f., 64 f., 69). The forged grave complex is described in Tori et al. 2004: 249 f. See also Ulrich 1914 I: 617.

The dating follows the typology in Pernet et al. 2006: 223–225 and Tori et al. 2010: 214 f. for Giubiasco, who date fiasce a trottola of type 1 to LT C, of type 2 to LT C2; the present object represents a transition form (height equalling width and high shoulder, but pronounced curvature of the body, prolonged neck, cylindrical flange, sloping lip, painted decoration). De Marinis & Motta 1991: 216 give LT C1 based on Stöckli 1975, cf. Morandi 1999: 164, no. 8 and Morandi 2004.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Crivelli 1977	Aldo Crivelli, "La necropoli di Giubiasco", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como 159 (1977), 5–98.
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.