TI·32

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]?ṣọṇị : p̣la[
Reading in original script:	]?[
Object:	TI·32 Aranno (stela)
Position:	front
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	13 cm5.118 in <br />
Number of letters:	8
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
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, prob. dedicatory
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'for °su son of Pla° ...' (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 272 c Solinas 1995: 1 C Motta 2000: 8 c Morandi 2004: 30
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 537 no. 30

Images

Drawing of inscription TI·32 from Giussani

Stela fragment TI·32 Aranno with inscription TI·32 from Motta

Fragment TI·32 Aranno with inscription TI·32

Commentary

First published in Mommsen 1853: 202 f., no. 5a.

Images in Mommsen 1853: Taf. I.5a (drawings by Pelli = CII: tab. I.1A), Monti 1860: 59, no. 3 (drawing), CII: tab. LVIII.1A (drawing of a cast by Baserga = Pauli 1885: Taf. I.1a),

Monti 1960: 59, CII: iii, no. 1a, Addenda et Corrigenda, c.2033, Pauli 1885: 8, no. 13a, Rhŷs 1913: 21–23, no. 7a, Giussani 1902: 33 f., no. 2,

Maybe the fragmented pla[ could be understood as a writing error for pala (cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1014-1015, fn. 33, Motta 2000: 203). ]??soni : ịla[ (Solinas, Tibiletti Bruno), ]oni : pla[ or ila[ (Motta)

• Tibiletti Bruno 1965: pp. 103-123
• Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: 356
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 136-137
• Fabretti 1867 (CII): 1a, Tav. I, Addenda et Corrigenda, c.2033, Tav. LVIII
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 272 c
• Solinas 1995: p. 319, n.1, Framm. C
• Motta 2000: p. 202, n.8 c

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.