TI·31

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ala[
Reading in original script:	(unknown)
Object:	TI·31 Aranno (slab)
Position:	front
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
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:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B, La Tène C [from object]
Date of inscription:	4th–mid-2nd c. BC [from object]
Type:	prob. funerary
Language:	prob. Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	NP
Meaning:	prob. "(grave)stone"
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 272 b Solinas 1995: 1 D Motta 2000: 8 b Morandi 2004: 29
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 535 & 537 Motta 2000: 202-204 Solinas 1995: 319-320 Lejeune 1971: 82

Images

Drawing of inscription TI·31 from Giussani

Fragment TI·31 Aranno with inscription TI·31

Commentary

• Tibiletti Bruno 1965: pp. 103-123
• Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: 356
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: p. 136
• Fabretti 1867 (CII): 1b, Tav. I, Addenda et Corrigenda, c.2033, Tav. LVIII
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 272 b
• Solinas 1994: p. 319, n.1, Framm. D
• Motta 2000: p. 202, n.8b

Bibliography

CII	Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum antiquioris aevi. Ordine geographico digestum et glossarium italicum, in quo omnia vocabula continentur ex umbricis, sabinis, oscis, volscis, etruscis aliisque monumentis quae supersunt, Augusta Taurinorum: 1867.
Crivelli 1943	Aldo Crivelli, Atlante preistorico e storico della Svizzera Italiana. Vol. 1: Dalle origini alla civiltà romana, Bellinzona: Istituto Editoriale Ticinese 1943.
De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.