TI·19 Giubiasco
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| Classification: | helmet |
| Archaeological Type: | Negau (Alpine type Sanzeno variant) |
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| 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 |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène B 2, La Tène C, La Tène D |
| Date: | 3rd–1st c. BC |
| Date derived from: | typology |
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| 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 |
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| Inscription: | TI·19 (iiu·o·tove) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Motta 2000: 28 Morandi 2004: 20 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 529 f. no. 20 |
Images
 Helmet TI·19 Giubiasco with inscription
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Commentary
Images in Ulrich 1914 II: Taf. LXXX.2, 2a (photos), Egg 1986: 149, Abb. 17 (detail drawings), Taf. 285, 286a (photos), De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000 II: 454, no. 414 (photo).
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 (see also De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000 II: 453 f., no. 414). Motta 2000: 216, no. 28 gives the middle of the 4th–middle of the 2nd c. BC, Morandi 2004 the 4th–3rd c. BC.
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. |
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| 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. |
