VB·24
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| Reading in transliteration: | exobna / diuconis / f |
| Reading in original script: |            
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| Object: | VB·24 Stresa (stela) |
| Position: | top, front |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 7.5–8.5 cm2.953 in <br />3.346 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 15 |
| Number of words: | 3 |
| Number of lines: | 3 |
| Workmanship: | carved |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | Augustan, Tiberian [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 1st c. BC–early 1st c. AD [from object] |
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| Type: | funerary |
| Language: | Latin |
| Meaning: | 'Exobna daughter of Diuco' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15a Morandi 2004: 67 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 564 f. no. 67 |
Images
 Gravestone from Bee with Latin inscription
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 Inscription VB·24 from De Giuli 1979
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 Stela VB·24 Stresa with inscription VB·24 from De Giuli 1979
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 Stela VB·24 Stresa with inscription VB·24
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Commentary
First published in De Giuli 1979: 248. Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.
Images in De Giuli 1979: 248 (photo fig. 3 and drawing).
Inscribed in three neatly centered lines in the upper area of the stela (length line 1 46 cm, line 2 48 cm; distance from top 42 cm). The script is Latin and some of the letters feature serifs, but nu is Lepontic.
The text is a Latinised name formula with individual name and filiation; both names are etymologically Celtic (see the word pages). The individual name diuco is also attested in a Latin inscription on a gravestone from Bee near Verbania (Lanza & Poletti Ecclesia 2021). Cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 260–262, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 168, no. 15a, De Giuli 1979: 245, 251. Morandi 2004: 565 dates the inscription to the first half of the 1st century BC based on the use of ⟨x⟩ rather than ⟨xs⟩, but this seems too early; the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (HD001987) dates the document to the 1st century AD.
See also AE 1982, no. 413.
Bibliography
| AE | Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–. |
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| 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. |
