MI·26 Milano

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Object
Classification:	beaker
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 7.1 cm (of fragment), foot diam. 4.4 cm
Condition:	broken, fragmentary, repaired
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 26 2022
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B
Date:	375–250 BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Milano (Milano, Lombardia, Italy)
Field name:	Milano amphitheatre
Archaeological context:	u.s. 298
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 27' 24.28" N, 9° 10' 44.33" E
Find date:	2020
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Milano (Milano)
Inventory no.:	St 20566
Inscription:	MI·26 (plios)
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Consonni et al. 2021: 33–35

Commentary

Image in Consonni et al. 2021: 36, fig. 26.4 (drawing).

Lower part of a ceramic beaker with globular body (type G after De Marinis) in two fragments, found in the filling layer (u.s. 298) of a pit (u.s. 299) below the Roman amphitheatre of Milano, between traverses 37 and 38 of the Roman structure in section 8 of the 2019/2020 excavation. The pit contains a large number of Golasecca and La Tène pottery and is tentatively interpreted as a votive deposit. See Roncoroni in Consonni et al. 2021: 31–42 on the find context and 33–35 on the object (no. 4) and dating. The beaker is on display in the Antiquarium Alda Levi, but will go into storage when the current exhibition is dismantled.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Consonni et al. 2021	Delfina Consonni, Anna Maria Fedeli, Antonella Ranaldi, Francesca Roncoroni, "Contributi allo studio di Milano in età protostorica e romana nell'area dell'anfiteatro. Prime notizie degli scavi in corso (2019–2020)", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità n.s. 1, Vol. 1 (2021), 3–46.