TI·26

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	teromui : kualui
Reading in original script:
Object:	TI·26 Vira Gambarogno (stela)
Position:	front
Orientation:	270°
Frame:	(left: waisted head, middle: top and bottom, right: straight)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	16–18 cm6.299 in <br />7.087 in <br />
Number of letters:	13
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B, La Tène C [from object]
Date of inscription:	4th–mid-2nd c. BC [from object]
Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'for Teromos son of Kuos'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 267 Solinas 1995: 29 Motta 2000: 4 Morandi 2004: 25
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 533 no. 25

Images

Inscription TI·26 from Morandi

Stela TI·26 Vira Gambarogno from Motta

Stela TI·26 Vira Gambarogno with inscription TI·26

Commentary

First published in Giussani 1919.

Images in Giussani 1919: 16, fig. 1 (photo) and 17, fig. 2 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 236, fig. 9.25 (drawing), Motta 2000: 199, fig. 3 (photo = Stifter 2020: ?).

Inscribed in a single line within a frame running from bottom to top (length 82 cm). Though the stone appears to be broken on top, the inscription is complete (pace Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 53), as no traces of a word divider or letters can be seen on the intact surface above final iota, where the frame forms the neck and head of the anthropomorphic figure. The usual pala is thus not part of the text; the inscription consists in the name of the deceased (individual name + patronym) in the dative. See the word pages for details.

See also Pometta 1917, Pisani 1964: 281, no. 118 A, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 139, 188.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.