VB·23

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	kiketu / ṛẹtalos
Reading in original script:	[

Object:	VB·23 Stresa (stela)
Position:	front
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	13
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	damaged

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	1^st c. BC [from object]

Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	unknown

Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15 Solinas 1995: 121 Morandi 2004: 66

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 564 no. 66

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

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. 264-265kiketị / retalos (Tibiletti Bruno)
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 167-168, Solinas 1995: 372, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 167-168
De Giuli 1978-9: p. 247
Caramella & De Giuli 1993: p. 207
Solinas 1995: p. 372, n. 121

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.
De Hoz 1990	Javier de Hoz, "El genitivo celtico de los temas en -o-", in: Francisco Villar (ed.), Studia indogermanica et palaeohispanica in honorem Antonio Tovar et Luis Michelena, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1990, 315–329.