VA·8 Somma Lombardo
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| Classification: | bowl |
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| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | height 5.1 cm, mouth diam. 19 cm |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D |
| Date: | mid-2nd–1st c. BC |
| Date derived from: | archaeological context |
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| Site: | Somma Lombardo (Varese, Lombardia, Italy) |
| Field name: | Via Soragana |
| Archaeological context: | grave 2 (Objects: VA·7 Somma Lombardo, VA·8 Somma Lombardo, VA·9 Somma Lombardo) |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 40' 49.61" N, 8° 43' 23.47" E |
| Find date: | 1984 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Finder: | Museo Civico di Arsago Seprio |
| Current location: | Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Como, Lecco, Monza-Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio e Varese (Milano) |
| Inventory no.: | St 45175 |
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| Inscription: | VA·8 (anisa) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 108 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 597 no. 108 |
Commentary
Image in Simone 1986: 103, tav. 1 b (drawing).
Covered bowl (without cover) decorated with three white horizontal stripes (detailed description in Simone 1986: 102 sub b), found in tomb 2 of the small necropolis in Via Soragana together with a fiasca a trottola, an inscribed cup, an inscribed patera, two pots (one with a single mark on the side) and two fibulae (Simone 1986: 102). Dating according to Simone 1986: 100 for the necropolis.
