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{{object
|type_object=stela
|material=stone
|dimension=max. height 71 cm, max. breadth 28 cm, width 6 cm
|dimension_max=71 cm
|condition=unknown
|autopsy=Corinna Salomon
|date_autopsy=Sep 27 2021
|culture_archaeological=La Tène D 1
|sortdate=-100
|date=late 2<sup>nd</sup>–early 1<sup>st</sup> century BC
|date_derivation‎=typology
|site=Mesocco
|coordinate_n=46.3869942
|coordinate_e=9.2337083
|find_circumstances=by chance
|sortdate_find=1885
|location=Rätisches Museum (Chur)
|inventory_number=III.C33a
|whatmough=255
|tibiletti_bruno=19
|solinas=19
|motta=12
|morandi=1
|source_detail=Piana Agostinetti 2004: 145
|checklevel=0
}}
== Commentary ==
Images in {{bib|Planta 1885}}: 176 (drawing = {{bib|Danielsson 1909}}: 30), {{bib|Rhŷs 1913}}: pl. V (photo), {{bib|Risch 1970}}: Taf. 4.2 (photo), {{bib|Risch 1984}}: 35, Abb. 17 (photo = {{bib|Risch 1992}}: 683, Abb. 4.2), {{bib|Morandi 1991}}: 210, tav. XXI (photo = {{bib|Solinas 1995}}: tav. LXIIIb = {{bib|Morandi 2004}}: tav. V.1) and 211, tav. XXII (drawing), {{bib|Morandi 2004}}: 525, fig. 8.1 (drawing), {{bib|Stifter 2020}}: 28, fig. 19 (photo).

Trapezoid gneiss stela, tapering from 28 cm at the bottom to 20.5 cm at (what is now) the top – {{bib|Piana Agostinetti 2004}}: 144 considers the stone complete, but see the inscription page. The stela was found in March 1885 in a field which was being cleared of stones, at a depth of 1 m, near the village [[Mesocco]] in the Moesa valley (Misox). {{bib|Planta 1885}}: 176 in the original publication gives the find spot as "[u]nter dem Dorfe Misox, unweit von der prächtigen Burgruine gleichen Namens", distinguishing it from the find area "ob dem Dorfe Misox" of some Gallo-Roman graves signalled in the same publication (176 f.). While the graves belong to the late Iron Age grave field at Anzone/Brecca ({{bib|Della Casa 2000}}: 83), the find spot of the stela, according to {{bib|Della Casa 2000}}: 92, lies in the hamlet Benabbia near the Gorda hill. The latter is the site of a middle and late La Tène settlement; the evidence for a corresponding gravefield to its south-west is so far sparse (see {{bib|Della Casa 2000}}: 83–95). Von Planta assumed that the stone covered a grave which would have been found if further excavating had been done at the time, but in light of the modern excavation situation it might be considered whether the stela was moved to its eventual find place from one of the Iron Age grave fields (Anzone/Brecca: late Iron Age; Coop: early Iron Age).

The stela is classified as type D (trapezoid, inscription in vertical lines without stylised antropomorphic frame) by {{bib|De Marinis & Motta 1991}}: 206. It is dated to the late 2<sup>nd</sup>/early 1<sup>st</sup> century BC by {{bib|Solinas 1995}}: 327, no. 19 and {{bib|Motta 2000}}: 206, no. 12 following the dating of type D stelae in {{bib|De Marinis & Motta 1991}}: 211. The dating to the 3<sup>rd</sup> century BC given by {{bib|Piana Agostinetti 2004}}: 308, 313 (and in consequence Morandi) is based on palaeography; the stela's measurements according to Piana Agostinetti's typology point to the same time frame as given by De Marinis.
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