VB·26

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	tunal / koimila
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·26 Stresa (stela)
Position:	top, front
Orientation:	0°
Frame:	(left: none, middle: all, right: none)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
adapted to:	Latin script
Number of letters:	12
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	funerary
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 301 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 16 Solinas 1995: 125 Morandi 2004: 69
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 565 no. 69

Images

Stela VB·26 Stresa with inscription VB·26

Inscription VB·26

Commentary

First published in Ferrero 1889: 262.

Images in Ferrero 1889: 262 (drawing), Ponti 1896: 153, no. 186 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), Ferrero 1897: 57 (drawing from Fabretti's calque).

• Image in Danielsson 1909: 28 (drawing)
• De Vit 1889: pp. 53-54
• Ferrero 1897: pp. 57-8
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 75, n.7, 3
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 152, 169-170, n.16 and p. 218
• Solinas 1995: p. 374, n.125

Bibliography

Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.
Danielsson 1909	Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.
Ferrero 1889	Ermanno Ferrero, "Regione XI. (Transpadana)", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1889), 261–262.
Ferrero 1897	Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60.