NO·20

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]?ọ[ / ]ṭọ[ ]ịkṇọṣ / ṃatopokios / sola / nimoniknạ
Reading in original script:	]?[ ][   ]
Object:	NO·20 Cureggio (stela)
Position:	front
Frame:	(left: straight double, middle: all, right: straight double)
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
adapted to:	Latin script
Letter height:	10–11 cm3.937 in <br />4.331 in <br />
Number of letters:	32
Number of words:	5
Number of lines:	5
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'... son of ?, Matopokios, Sola daughter of Nimon(i)os'
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 123 Morandi 2004: 96
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 584 no. 96

Images

Fragment NO·20 Cureggio with inscription NO·20 from Morandi 2004

Fragment NO·20 Cureggio with inscription NO·20

Commentary

• Gambari 1984
• Gambari 1991: pp. 227-237 (drawing on pp. 229-230, printed also in Motta 1995: 127 fig. 1)
• Motta 1992: 317
• Motta 1995: pp. 126-137
• Solinas 1995: p. 373, n.123

Bibliography

Gambari 1984	Filippo M. Gambari, "Cureggio. Stele di reimpiego con iscrizione preromana", Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte 3 (1984), 263.
Gambari 1991	Filippo M. Gambari, "La stele di Cureggio: una nuova iscrizione epicorica preromana dal Novarese", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 227–237.