VA·26 Arsago Seprio

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	black-glazed patera Lamboglia 5 / Morel 2284
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 4.2 cm, mouth diam. 36 cm, foot diam. 9.8 cm
Condition:	broken, repaired, incomplete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 30 2022
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 2
Date:	75–25 BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Arsago Seprio (Varese, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Sant'Ambrogio
Archaeological context:	grave 1/1986–7 (ustrinum)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 41' 1.31" N, 8° 44' 2.68" E
Find date:	1986–1987
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Soprintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia
Current location:	Civico Museo Archeologico (Arsago Seprio)
Inventory no.:	St 61499
Inscription:	VA·26 (ui)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 126
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 606 no. 126

Images

Patera VA·26 Arsago Seprio

Patera VA·26 Arsago Seprio with inscription VA·26

Commentary

Image in Veronesi 1990: tav. XIVi (drawings).

Black-glazed patera found in the ustrinum of grave 1 of the 1986–7 excavation according to Binaghi Leva 1990: 55; the burial of a female is considered to be one of the elite graves (Binaghi Leva 1990: 34, 52–55). (Morandi locates the find in grave 4 of the excavation in autumn 1993, but "T. 1" is noted on the object.) See also Volontè Fredini 1990: 70. Cf. VA·13 Arsago Seprio from the associated grave. Dating from Volontè Fredini 1990: 70; the grave is dated to the Augustan period by Binaghi Leva 1990: 52.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Binaghi Leva 1990	Maria Adelaide Binaghi Leva, "Classificazione tipologica dei corredi", in: Giordano Veronesi (ed.), Arsago. Nullus in Insubria pagus vetustior. Studi in memoria di Silvio Pozzi, Varese: Edizioni Lativa 1990, 34–60.