Prestino

Prestino (Lombard: Prestin, Italian pronunciation: [preʃˈtiːŋ]) is a district of Como, Italy, of about 3,000 inhabitants, about 2 km west of that city.

Prestino
Comune
Comune di Prestino
Country	Italy
Region	Lombardy
Province	Como
Population
• Total	3,103
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Patron saint	St. Felix, St. Francis of Assisi

History

Prestino is the site of the discovery of one of the most important inscriptions in the ancient and scantily attested Lepontic language, the Prestino Stone. This is a dedication pictured here, the text of which reads:

uvamakozis plialeθu uvltiauiopos ariuonepos sitis tetu

Probably: "Uvamakozis dedicated (literally 'gave') to Plialethos [these] uvltiaviop-s, arivonep-s [and] sits ("sacred mounds"? if from *sēdns (accusative plural; compare Old Irish sēdēs and Latin se:de:)."^[1][2][3]

Lepontic inscription from Prestino

Demographics

Inhabitants registered within the municipality of Como:

Year	Population
1981	3447
1991	3847
2001	3682
2008	3650[4]

Bibliography

(Ordered by date of publication)

• Roberti, Mario Mirabella (1966) "Un'iscrizione eponzio-ligure a Prestino di Como" Arte Lombarda, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 114-115
• Lejeune, M. (1970–71) "Documents gaulois et para-gaulois de Cisalpine" Études Celtiques, volume 12, issue 2, pp. 452-462
• Prosdocimi, Aldo L. (1986) "L'iscrizione leponzia di Prestino: Vent'anni dopo" Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie Vol.41, p.225
• de Hox, Javier (1992) "Lepontic, Celtiberian, Gaulish, and the Archeological Evidence" Études celtiques vol. 29 pp. 223-240
• Ball, M. J. and J. Fife (eds.) (2002) The Celtic Language Routledge, p. 44-45
• Markey, Thomas L.; Mees, Bernard (2003) "Prestino, patrimony and the Plinys"Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, Vol.53 (1), p.116
• Matasovic, Ranko (2006) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic Brill: Leiden, p. 326
• Mees, Bernard (2008) "Early Celtic metre at Vergiate and Prestino" Historische Sprachforschung, Vol.121 (1), p.188-208
• "Mummified body of Italian woman found sitting at a table, 2 years after her death" February 10, 2022 CBS News. Retrieved June 15, 2023. [^1^][1]