CO·48 Prestino
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Classification: | slab |
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| Description: | called "stela" by the museum |
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| Material: | stone |
| Material Composition: | sandstone |
| Shape: | parallelepiped |
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| Extension (h×w×d): | 18 cm7.086614 in × 380 cm149.606299 in × 33 cm12.992126 in |
| Condition: | damaged |
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| Archaeological Culture: | unknown |
| Date: | end of 6th / beginning of 5th century BC |
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| Site: | Prestino (fraction of Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy) |
| Field Name: | fondo Giulini |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 48' 4" N, 9° 3' 23" ELatitude: 45.801106 Longitude: 9.056518 [from site] |
| Find Date: | 1966 |
| Find Circumstances: | by chance (salvage excavation) |
| Finder: | Cirillo |
| Current Location: | Museo Archeologico "Paolo Giovio" (Como) |
| Inventory Nr.: | 8777 |
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| Inscription: | CO·48 (uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu) |
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| Alternative Sigla: | Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 23 Solinas 1994: 65 Motta 2000: 2 Morandi 2004: 180 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 638-640 & 801 (pl. XXIV.180) Motta 2000: 197-198 Solinas 1995: 343 Markey & Mees 2003: 116-117 & 120-122 |
Images
 Slab CO·48 Prestino containing the inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu
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 Slab CO·48 Prestino containing the inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu :...
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 Photo of CO·48 Prestino with inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu
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Commentary
The size of the stone is different according to different sources: 385 × 19 (max.) × 42 (max.) cm (Motta 2000: 197), 375 × 18 (mean) × 33 (mean) cm (Morandi 2004: 638), 378 x 19 x 23 cm (Markey & Mees 2003: 121 fig. 2, they refer to the "'official' measurements"). Also the dating differs according to different sources: second quarter of 5th century BC (Motta 2000: 197, cp. De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: 211), "datable on epigraphic and archaeological grounds to about 480-450 BC" (Markey & Mees 2003: 116). The site is within Golasecca III B - Golaseccca III A 1-2; beaker finds in the approximate context of the stone can be dated Golasecca III A (Markey & Mees 2003: 116, 212 fig. 2, De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: 211-212, fig. 7). Sketch of the site in Markey & Mees 2003: 121 (fig. 2, from De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: fig. 6). The inscription on the stone "faced west, toward an area devoid of archaeological definition and away from what appear to have been more elaborate interior structures to the east", the stone was "apparently dry-mounted on a low exterior wall" (Markey & Mees 2003: 212 fig. 2, see also 120-122).
- Luraschi et al. 1968-9: 221-223 (site map, in situ photography)
- De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: 211, n. 16 (details about the excavation of the site)
- Tibiletti Bruno 1989: 77-105 (with details of excavation and discussion of the alphabetical signs, cf. Markey & Mees 2003: 120)
Cf. CO·21 Rondineto
Bibliography
| De Marinis & Motta 1990-1 | Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una Nuova Iscrizione Lepontica su Pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano). Aspetti Epigrafici e Inquadramento Cronologico", Sibrium 21 (1990-1991), 201-225. |
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| Luraschi et al. 1968-9 | Giorgio Luraschi, Pier Ugo Martinelli, Cesare Piovan, Giancarlo Frigerio, Furio Ricci, "Insediamenti di Como Preromana", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 150-151 (1968-1969), 201-236. |
| Markey & Mees 2003 | Thomas L. Markey, Bernard Mees, "Prestino, patrimony and the Plinys", Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 53 (2003), 116-167. |
| Morandi 2004 | Alessandro Morandi, Celti d'Italia. A cura di Paola Piana Agostinetti. Tomo II: Epigrafia e lingua dei Celti d'Italia [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 12.2], Roma: Spazio Tre 2004. |
| Motta 2000 | Filippo Motta, "La documentazione epigrafica e linguistica", in: Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (Eds.), I Leponti tra mito e realtà, Locarno: Gruppo Archeologia Ticino 2000, 181–222. |
| Solinas 1994 | Patrizia Solinas, "Il Celtico in Italia", Studi Etruschi 60 (1994 [1995]), 311-408. |
| Tibiletti Bruno 1981 | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Le iscrizioni celtiche d'Italia", in: Enrico Campanile (Ed.), I Celti d'Italia, Pisa: Giardini 1981, 157-207. |
| Tibiletti Bruno 1989 | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Storia Linguistica Preromana nel Comasco", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 171 (1989), 77-118. |
