BS·3 Voltino

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Object
Classification: stela

Material: stone
Size: height 90 cm, width 45 cm
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: Augustan
Date: late 1st c. BC–early 1st c. AD

Site: Voltino (fraction of: Tremosine, Brescia, Lombardia, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 47' 2.40" N, 10° 45' 57.60" E [from site]
Find date: before 1780
Current location: Capitolium (Brescia)
Inventory no.: MR 2786

Inscriptions:
  • BS·3.1 (tetumus/sexti/dugiaua/saśadis)
  • BS·3.2 (θomezecuai/obauzanaθina)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 249
Morandi 2004: 233

Sources: Morandi 2004: 670 f.

Images

Commentary

Image in Morandi 2004: 806, tav. XXIX (photo).

Limestone stela, already mentioned by P. Gnocchi (1688–1781). Dating according to Morandi apud Gregori.

Bibliography

Eska & Wallace 2011 Joseph F. Eska, Rex E. Wallace, "Script and language at ancient Voltino", Alessandria 5 (2011), 93–113.
Eska 1989 Joseph Francis Eska, "Interpreting the Gaulish inscription of Voltino", Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 36 (1989), 106-107.