NO·19 Gozzano
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| Classification: | stela |
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| Material: | stone |
| Size: | height 164 cm, width 83 cm, thickness 7–13 cm |
| Condition: | incomplete |
| Autopsy by: | Corinna Salomon |
| Date of autopsy: | Apr 24 2024 |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène C 2, La Tène D |
| Date: | second half of 2nd–1st c. BC |
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| Site: | Gozzano (Novara, Piemonte, Italy) |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 44' 34.71" N, 8° 26' 31.67" E |
| Find date: | 1996–1997 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Current location: | Musei Reali – Museo di Antichità (Torino) |
| Inventory no.: | none |
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| Inscription: | NO·19 (autesai:kar/nitus:petua[) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 95 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 583 no. 95 |
Commentary
Image in Gambari 1998: tav. XCIX (photo).
Large, roughly rectangular slab of local stone (Morandi 2004: 583), the lower part of a stela, found during the excavation of the mediaeval cemetery in the church S. Lorenzo, beside numerous reused stelae from Roman times. Fragmentary bronze bangles dated to La Tène C 1 which were also found at the site may indicate that the cemetery had an Iron-age phase. (See Gambari 1998d.) Below the inscription, next to each other, a sign made up of two back-to-back semicircles and, on the right, a large four-spoked wheel (cf. NO·21 San Bernardino di Briona).
Morandi 2004: 583 notes the possible finding of the stela's upper part in May 2001; this is confirmed by Dupraz 2019: 62, n. 10, who reports a personal communication from Gambari according to which at least a section of the upper part of the stela, preserving a piece of the inscription, was recovered, but not yet published. The find has to our knowledge remained unpublished; enquiries are being made to the responsible Soprintendenza.
Bibliography
| Dupraz 2019 | Emmanuel Dupraz, "Sur la forme gauloise canecosedlon", Keltische Forschungen 8 (2019), 59–75. |
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| Gambari 1998 | Filippo Maria Gambari, "Arte e artigianato. Cultura figurativa e plastica nell'età del ferro piemontese", in: Liliana Mercando, Marica Venturino Gambari (eds), Archeologia in Piemonte. Volume I: La preistoria, Torino: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Piemonte 1998, 289–322. |
| Gambari 1998d | Filippo M. Gambari, "Gozzano, chiesa di S. Lorenzo. Ritrovamento di stele preromana", Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte 15 (1998), 231–233. |
