NO·19 Gozzano

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Object
Classification:	stela
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
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C 2, La Tène D
Date:	second half of 2nd–1st c. BC
Date derived from:	palaeography
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
Inscription:	NO·19 (autesai:kar/nitus:petua[)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 95
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 The find has to our knowledge remained unpublished; enquiries are being made to the responsible Soprintendenza.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Dupraz 2019	Emmanuel Dupraz, "Sur la forme gauloise canecosedlon", Keltische Forschungen 8 (2019), 59–75.