TI·35 Ponte Capriasca

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Object
Classification: stela

Material: stone
Size: length 52 cm, width 30 cm, thickness 10 cm
Condition: fragmentary

Archaeological culture: unknown
Date: unknown

Site: Ponte Capriasca (Ticino, Switzerland)
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 3' 41.88" N, 8° 57' 1.26" E
Find date: early 1930s
Find circumstances: by chance
Current location: Ufficio Cantonale dei Beni Culturali (Bellinzona)
Inventory no.: 196.1930.1

Inscription: TI·35 (]osik[/]?uka[)

Alternative sigla: Solinas 1995: 20 bis
Motta 2000: 9
Morandi 2004: 33

Sources: Morandi 2004: 539 no. 33

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Commentary

Image in Motta 2000: 204, fig. 8 (photo).

Fragment of a stela which had been used as a weight for a wire in a vinyard, possibly found in the early 1930s when digging a well behind the church San Rocco (Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 139 after Gilardoni 1956). See the inscription page on suggestions for a typological/palaeographical dating.

Corinna Salomon

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