TI·32

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]?ṣọṇị : p̣la[
Reading in original script:	]?[
Variant reading:	]?ṣọṇị : ịla[ ]?[
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 a and b), Monti 1860: 59, no. 3 (drawing = CII: tab. I.1A c), CII: tab. LVIII.1A (drawing of a cast by Serafino Balestra ~ Pauli 1885: Taf. I.1a), Giussani 1902: 33, fig. 3 (drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1965: 112 and 118 (photos) and 119 (drawing), Motta 2000: 203, fig. 7 (photo). Photo of a plaster cast, probably from the Museo Civico Lugano, in Motta & Ricci 1908: tav. II. In great detail on the history of the documentation Tibiletti Bruno 1965: 103–105 with footnotes.

The middle part of one line is preserved on the fragment, together with the frame line below the letters; the existence of a line above can be inferred. All letters are damaged in the upper area. Of the first letter after the break, only the lower part of a hasta appears to be left, followed by an angle which may well be the lower part of sigma (Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 137 ]isoni, Solinas 1995 ]??soni). Omicron, nu and iota are plausible, forming the dative/locative sg. ending of an individual name (see )?soni); Morandi's ]novi is unlikely. After the separator follow a hasta whose upper end is missing, lambda and unambiguous alpha. The hasta has been read as iota (in older publications and again by Solinas and Motta 2000: 202 f., no. 8c) or pi (Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 136 f., Morandi). In either case, the sequence is likely to be the beginning of a patronym; Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1014 f. suggests that pla( could be a misspelling for pala (also Motta 2000: 203).

See also Monti 1860: 59, CII: iii, no. 1a, Addenda et Corrigenda, c.2033, Pauli 1885: 8, no. 13a, 70–74, Giussani 1902: 33 f., no. 2, Rhŷs 1913: 21–23, no. 7a, Motta & Ricci 1908: 28 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1965, Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: 356, Tibiletti Bruno 1975 passim, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 90.

Corinna Salomon

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.