CO·59 Prestino

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Material:	pottery
Size:	unknown
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 2
Date:	second half of 5th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Prestino (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Via Mantegna
Archaeological context:	pit (Objects: CO·57 Prestino, CO·58 Prestino, CO·59 Prestino, CO·60 Prestino)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 3.91" N, 9° 3' 21.25" E
Find date:	1995–1997
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Soprintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia
Current location:	Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Como, Lecco, Monza-Brianza, Pavia, Sondrio e Varese (Milano)
Inscription:	CO·59 (sekezoṣ)
Alternative sigla:	Motta 2000: 13 2 Morandi 2004: 191
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 644 f. no. 191

Images

Fragmentary bowl CO·59 Prestino with inscription CO·59 from Motta

Commentary

Images in Motta 2000: 208, fig. 12 (drawing), De Marinis 2001: 65, fig. 17 (drawing).

Adjacent fragments of the entire foot of a bowl found during excavations by the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia in a pit, together with CO·57 Prestino, CO·58 Prestino and CO·60 Prestino. Dating from Motta 2000: 207 (also Morandi).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

De Marinis 2001	Raffaele C. de Marinis, "L'età del Ferro in Lombardia: stato attuale delle conoscenze e problemi aperti", in: Various authors, La protostoria in Lombardia. Atti del 3o convegno archeologico regionale, Como – Villa Olmo 22–23–24 ottobre 1999, Como: 2001, 27–76.