TI·19 Giubiasco

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Object
Classification:	helmet
Archaeological Type:	Negau (Alpine type Sanzeno variant)
Material:	bronze
Size:	height 23.7 cm, diam. 25.3 x 24.3 cm
Condition:	complete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Jul 20 2021
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B 2, La Tène C, La Tène D
Date:	3rd–1st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Giubiasco (fraction of: Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Giubiasco necropolis
Archaeological context:	"grave" 262
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:	Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum (Zürich)
Inventory no.:	15319
Inscription:	TI·19 (iiu·o·tove)
Alternative sigla:	Motta 2000: 28 Morandi 2004: 20
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 529 f. no. 20

Images

Helmet TI·19 Giubiasco with inscription

Commentary

Images in Ulrich 1914 II: Taf. LXXX.2, 2a (photos), Egg 1986: 149, Abb. 17 (detail drawings), Taf. 285, 286a (photos).

The Negau helmet (Alpine type, Sanzeno variant) 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: 250. Detailed description of the helmet in Egg 1986: 148, no. 375. The Sanzeno Werkstattkreis being associated with the Fritzens-Sanzeno culture in Südtirol and the Trentino, Egg (p. 109 f.) considers the two helmets from Giubiasco (also no. 374) to be imports. See also Ulrich 1914 I: 617.

The dating follows Egg 1986: 102–111 for Negau helmets of the Alpine type with Flechtband decoration, specimens of the Sanzeno variant being attested from LT B2 onward. Motta 2000: 216, no. 28 gives the middle of the 4^th–middle of the 2^nd c. BC, Morandi 2004 the 4^th–3^rd c. BC.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Egg 1986	Markus Egg, Italische Helme. Studien zu den ältereisenzeitlichen Helmen Italiens und der Alpen. Teil 1: Text, Teil 2: Tafeln, Mainz: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum 1986.