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{{inscription
|reading=namu / esopnio
|reading_lepontic={{c|N|N6|d}}{{c|A||d}}{{c|M|M5|d}}{{c|U}}<br />{{c|E||d}}{{c|S}}{{c|O|O2|d}}{{c|P||d}}{{c|N|N6|d}}{{c|I||d}}{{c|O|O2|d}}
|direction=dextroverse
|letter_height_min=8 cm
|letter_height_max=11 cm
|letter_number_min=11
|word_number=2
|line_number=2
|corpus=Cisalpine Celtic
|script=North Italic script
|script_adaptation=Latin script
|alphabet=Lepontic alphabet
|object=VB·28 Stresa
|position=top, front
|orientation=0
|frame_left=none
|frame_middle=all
|frame_right=none
|workmanship=carved
|condition=complete
|type_inscription=funerary
|language=Celtic
|meaning='Namu the Esopnian'
|whatmough=303
|tibiletti_bruno=18
|solinas=127
|morandi=71
|source_detail=Morandi 2004: 567 f. no. 71
|checklevel=2
|problem={{bib|Lejeune 1971}}: 72, n. 249 esopnio
}}
==Commentary==
First published in {{bib|Ferrero 1889}}: 262 (d). Examined for LexLep on 20<sup>th</sup> April 2024.

Images in {{bib|Ferrero 1889}}: 262 (drawing), {{bib|Ponti 1896}}: 154, no. 188 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), {{bib|Ferrero 1897}}: 58 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), {{bib|Solinas 1995}}: tav. 68a (photo).

Inscribed in two lines between three horizontal lines, the uppermost 17.5 cm from the top of the stela (frame height line 1 12–13 cm, line 2 12.5–13.5 cm). Made from a different stone than the other stelae from [[Levo]], the letters on the stela are well preserved; the letters show Latin influence in the form of epsilon with almost straight bars, Latin nu and mu with straight hastae and the middle tip not reaching the bottom (see [[M]]). See {{bib|Ponti 1896}}: 154 f., {{bib|Ferrero 1897}}: 58 f., no. 2, {{bib|Danielsson 1909}}: 28, n. 1, {{bib|Rhŷs 1913}}: 50 f., no. 1, {{bib|Jacobsohn 1927}}: 30, no. 189, Whatmough {{bib|PID}} 108, no. 303, {{bib|Pisani 1964}}: 282 f., no. 119 C, {{bib|Tibiletti Bruno 1978}}: 153, {{bib|Tibiletti Bruno 1981}}: 171 f., no. 18, {{bib|De Hoz 1990}}: 323 f. (''namu'' as patronym, cf. [[VB·22]]; critical {{bib|Eska 1995}}: 43), {{bib|Solinas 1995}}: 374 f., no. 127, {{bib|Morandi 2004}}: 567 f., no. 71.

See also {{bib|Untermann 1960}}: 280, 306.
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