MI·9 Milano

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Object
Classification: bowl
Archaeological Type: black-glazed patera

Material: pottery
Size: foot diam. 6 cm
Condition: fragmentary

Archaeological culture: unknown
Date: 2nd c. BC
Date derived from: typology

Site: Milano (Milano, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name: Via Speronari
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 27' 47.44" N, 9° 11' 15.67" E
Find date: 1961
Find circumstances: excavation
Current location: Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Milano (Milano)
Inventory no.: St 8376

Inscription: MI·9 (ak)

Alternative sigla: Solinas 1995: 101
Morandi 2004: 139

Sources: Morandi 2004: 614 f. no. 139

Commentary

Image in Frontini 1985: tav. 28.2 (drawing).

Fragment of the foot and wall of a Volterran black-glazed patera (or cup?) found in Via Speronari. See Frontini 1985: 154, no. 28 for a description of the object. Dating according to Frontini 1985: 152; Morandi gives the late 2nd–early 1st century BC.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Frontini 1985 Patrizia Frontini, La ceramica a vernice nera nei contesti tombali della Lombardia [= Archeologia dell'Italia Settentrionale 3], Como: 1985.