MI·13 Mezzano

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	patera
Material:	pottery
Size:	length 13 cm, width 8.5 cm (of fragment), foot diam. 6 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 27 2022
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	first half of 1st c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Mezzano (fraction of: Melegnano, Milano, Lombardia, Italy)
Archaeological context:	grave 1
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 22' 8.40" N, 9° 18' 3.60" E [from site]
Find date:	1881
Find circumstances:	by chance
Current location:	Civico Museo Archeologico (Milano)
Inventory no.:	A 0.9.5291
Inscription:	MI·13 (]?an)
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 99 Morandi 2004: 143
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 617 f. no. 143

Images

Patera fragment MI·13 Mezzano with inscription MI·13

Patera fragment MI·13 Mezzano

Commentary

Images in Castelfranco 1886: tav. XIII.63 (drawing), Tizzoni 1981: tav. 11 a (photo), Tizzoni 1984: tav. LVII a (drawing).

Fragment of the foot and part of the bottom of a patera, found in the first of two cremation graves which were excavated by Castelfranco in 1881 (Castelfranco 1886: 243–246). See Tizzoni 1981: 14–21 (object p. 15, no. 2) and Tizzoni 1984: 51–58 (object p. 51, no. 1 sub ceramica) for details about the context and descriptons of the object. Dating after Tizzoni 1984: 58 for grave 1. (The inventory number 2401 given in Tibiletti Bruno 1984: 122 is incorrect.) The object is part of the Castelfranco collection (22°).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Castelfranco 1886	[Pompeo] Castelfranco, "Liguri-Galli e Galli-Romani della Transpadana", Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana 12 (1886), 194–212, 228–257.