TI·18 Giubiasco

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Object
Classification: flagon
Archaeological Type: Schnabelkanne

Material: bronze
Size: height 34.5 cm, rim diam. 14.4 cm, base diam. 10.5 cm
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: La Tène B 1
Date: late 4th c. BC
Date derived from: typology

Site: Giubiasco (fraction of: Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name: Giubiasco necropolis
Archaeological context: "grave" 32
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 10' 40.30" N, 9° 0' 42.57" E
Find date: October–December 1900
Find circumstances: unsupervised excavation
Finder: Domenico Pini
Current location: Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum (Zürich)
Inventory no.: A-14045

Inscriptions:

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 266 bis
Motta 2000: 29
Morandi 2004: 19

Sources: Morandi 2004: 529 no. 19

Commentary

Images in Ulrich 1914 II: Taf. LXXV.12 (photo), Jacobsthal & Langsdorff 1929: Tav. 22 and 23 (photos), Crivelli 1977: 26, fig. 8 (photo) and 27, fig. 9 (drawing), De Marinis 2000: 393, fig. 30, 394, fig. 31 (photos) and 395, fig. 32 (drawing = Pernet et al. 2006: pl. sub 32.10), Tori et al. 2010: 189, fig. 3.7 and 3.8 and 193, fig. 3.9 (photos).

The bronze Schnabelkanne – one of only two from Giubiasco – of the Ticino type comes from one of the graves which were excavated by Domenico Pini without supervision; the inventory includes objects from different periods and is probably not authentic (Tori et al. 2004: 62, 64, Pernet et al. 2006: 292; the grave complex is described in Tori et al. 2004: 107 f.). On the classification of the object see Tori et al. 2010: 189, 197, 229. See also Ulrich 1914 I: 549.

The dating follows Pernet et al. 2006; cf. Motta 2000: 216, no. 29 (second half of 4th century BC). See also Jacobsthal & Langsdorff 1929: 55–58, no. 126; De Marinis 2000: 392–396.

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 2000 Raffaele C. de Marinis, "Il vasellame bronzeo nell'area alpina della cultura di Golasecca", in: 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, I 341–406.