TI·23 Locarno

Object
Classification:	pot
Archaeological Type:	olla

Material:	pottery
Size:	height 12.1 cm, mouth diam. 7.4 cm, max diam. 12.2 cm, foot diam. 6.9 cm

Condition:	complete, broken, repaired
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Oct 17 2023

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	late 2^nd–1^st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology

Site:	Locarno (Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Solduno necropolis
Archaeological context:	grave D 38
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 10' 12.67" N, 8° 46' 42.25" E
Find date:	1939
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo Civico e Archeologico Castello Visconteo (Locarno)
Inventory no.:	134.1939.133

Inscription:	TI·23 (setupokios)

Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 5 Solinas 1995: 24 Motta 2000: 25 Morandi 2004: 24

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 532 no. 24

Images

Olla TI·23 Locarno from Motta

Olla TI·23 Locarno

Olla TI·23 Locarno with inscription TI·23

Olla TI·23 Locarno

Images in Crivelli 1939: 199, fig. 14 (drawing = Giussani 1940: 6) and fig. 12 and 13 (photo and drawing of position in tomb), Tibiletti Bruno 1965c: 84 (photo), Stöckli 1975: 53, Abb. 50.5 = 177, Taf. 39 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 192, pl. V.1 (photo = Motta 2000: 214, fig. 22a = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VII.24).

Olla, broken into many fragments, but repaired and practically complete, found in the Solduno necropolis (fondo Ardito), in the inhumation grave of a woman (Crivelli 1939: 199; details about the furniture in Giussani 1940: 5). Dating according to Stöckli 1975: 46 f. and De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000: 462, no. 538; differently (3^rd c. BC) Tibiletti Bruno 1965c: 84, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 159 and Solinas 1995: 329 following Crivelli 1939: 199 (cf. TI·25 Locarno). Additional references in Tibiletti Bruno 1965c: 83 f., n. 1.

Crivelli 1939	Aldo Crivelli, "La necropoli preromana di Solduno", Rivista Storica Ticinese 2/3 (1939), 193–200.
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.