VB·23

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	kiketu / ṛẹtalos
Reading in original script:	[
Variant reading:	kiketị / retalos (Tibiletti Bruno)
Object:	VB·23 Stresa (stela)
Position:	unknown
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic Script"North Italic Script" is not in the list (Greek script, Etruscan script, Latin script, North Italic script, Camunic script, none, unknown) of allowed values for the "script" property.
Number of letters:	13
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	unknown
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Syntactic analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15 Solinas 1995: 121 Morandi 2004: 66
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 564 Solinas 1994: 372 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 167-168

Images

Gravestone from Bee with Latin inscription

Inscription VB·23 from De Giuli 1979

Stela VB·23 Stresa with inscription VB·23 from De Giuli 1979

Inscription VB·23 from Tibiletti Bruno 1979

Stela VB·23 Stresa with inscription VB·23

Commentary

• Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: pp. 257-260 (after photography reading kiketi is possible, though in the context of the patronymic kiketu is the preferable variant reading), pp. 264-265
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 167-168
• De Giuli 1978-9: p. 247
• Caramella & De Giuli 1993: p. 207
• Solinas 1994: p. 372, n. 121

Bibliography

Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.
De Giuli 1978	Alberto De Giuli, "Le stele funerarie di Brisino", Bollettino Storico per la Provincia di Novara 69/1 (1978), 13–20.
De Giuli 1979	Alberto De Giuli, "Le stele funerarie di Brisino", Sibrium 14 (1978–1979), 245–252.