TI·29 Aranno

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable
Material:	stone
Material composition:	mica schist
Size:
Extension (h×w×d):	45 cm17.717 in <br /> × 38 cm14.961 in <br /> × 8.5 cm3.346 in <br />
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:	4th century BC
Site:	Aranno (Ticino, Switzerland)
Archaeological context:	over a tomb
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 1' 1.20" N, 8° 52' 1.20" E [from site]
Find date:	1841 (Motta) or 1842 (Morandi)
Current location:	Museo del Malcantone (Curio)
Inventory no.:	6.1818.1
Inscription:	TI·29 (]ạniui:p?[/]ḳionei:p[/]????[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 272 a Solinas 1995: 1 A Motta 2000: 8 a Morandi 2004: 27
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 534 Motta 2000: 202-203 Solinas 1995: 319-320

Images

Fragment TI·29 Aranno with inscription TI·29

Commentary

Images in Mommsen 1853: Taf. I.5d (drawings by Pelli = CII: tab. I.1D), CII: tab. LVIII.1D (drawing of a cast by Baserga = Pauli 1885: Taf. I.1d),

Found in March 1841 a quarter of a mile from Aranno near the old street which leads from there via the Monte d'Iseo to Neggio, on the property of one Vittore Corti, at a depth of somewhat over half a metre, together with three other stone fragments. According to the first owner of the finds, Vittore Pelli from Aranno, they are the remains of a grave chamber, destroyed by the finders. The four fragments from Aranno were thus originally thought to be parts of the same stela despite not fitting together (Mommsen 1853: 202 f., no. 5); Rhŷs 1913: 23 determined them to belong to at least two stones. Originally built into a wall of Pelli's house.

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 1940	Aldo Crivelli, "La iscrizione nord-etruscha di Aranno", Rivista Storica Ticinese 3 (1940), 333.