VA·21 Arsago Seprio

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Object
Classification: bowl
Archaeological Type: patera imit. Lamboglia 5/55 / Morel 2255

Material: pottery
Size: height 4.5 cm, diam. 21.1 cm, foot diam. 6.8 cm
Condition: damaged, repaired, incomplete
Autopsy by: Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy: Apr 30 2022

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

Site: Arsago Seprio (Varese, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name: Sant'Ambrogio
Archaeological context: grave 12/1986–7 (ustrinum)
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 41' 1.31" N, 8° 44' 2.68" E
Find date: 1986–1987
Find circumstances: excavation
Current location: Civico Museo Archeologico (Arsago Seprio)
Inventory no.: St 61530

Inscription: VA·21 (ilauki)

Alternative sigla: Morandi 2004: 121

Sources: Morandi 2004: 604 f. no. 121

Images

Commentary

Images in Veronesi 1990: tav. VIIIf (drawing), Morandi 2004: tav. XIX.121 (photo).

Unglazed patera imitating type Lamboglia 5/55 / Morel 2255, partly reconstructed from fragments, found in the ustrinum of grave 12 (excavation 1986/1987) of the Sant'Ambrogio necropolis; see Binaghi Leva 1990: 39, 49 for details about the grave and finds (also Volontè Fredini 1990: 72). Dating from Binaghi Leva 1990; Morandi 2001: 12, no. 5 gives the 2nd c. BC, La Tène D1 in 2004; Volontè Fredini 1990: 72 gives LT D2.

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.