Centrifugal bottle
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The spinning top bottle ( Italian Vaso a trottola ) is an Iron Age fine ceramic with painted decorations, which has been used since the end of the 3rd century BC. In northern Italy in the area populated by the Celtic tribes of the Lepontier and Insubrian tribes . Centrifugal bottles have a strongly curved, spherical body and a short, very narrow neck. The capacity of the clay vessels used for wine is mostly less than one liter.
Spinning top bottle finds are concentrated along the river and in the canton of Ticino . The several hundred specimens mostly come from graves. Two specimens were discovered near Bern . In Wallis centrifugal bottles found also come from graves. Fragments from the 2nd or 1st century BC Were recovered in the Gamsen-Waldmatte settlement. A special feature of the Valais are vessels made of local clay, which imitate spinning bottles. Occasional inscriptions were found on them. The one found in the Ornavasso burial ground (Val d'Ossola) contains the word uinum , wine in a text written in Lepontic.
literature
- Philippe Curdy, Olivier Paccolat, Lucia Wick, Anne-Dominique Zufferey, Olivier Mermod, Sarah Schupbach Hahling: Les premiers vignerons du Valais. = The first winemakers in Valais. In: Archeology of Switzerland. 32, 3, 2009, ISSN 0255-9005 , pp. 2-19, especially p. 10.