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Revision as of 18:11, 5 October 2024

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 The find has to our knowledge remained unpublished; enquiries are being made to the responsible Soprintendenza.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.
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.