VB·22

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	aśkonetio / pianu
Reading in original script:

Object:	VB·22 Stresa (stela)
Position:	front
Orientation:	0°
Frame:	(left: straight, middle: all, right: straight)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	14
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	1^st c. BC [from object]

Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Pianu the Adgonnetian' or 'Adgonnetio the Pianan'

Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 14 Solinas 1995: 120 Morandi 2004: 65

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 563 f. no. 65

Images

Gravestone from Bee with Latin inscription

Inscription VB·22 from De Giuli 1979

Stela VB·22 Stresa with inscription VB·22 from De Giuli 1979

Inscription VB·22 from Tibiletti Bruno 1979

Stela VB·22 Stresa with inscription VB·22

First published in De Giuli 1979: 248.

Images in De Giuli 1979: 246 (photo and drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 255, fig. 1 (drawing).

Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 253–257 (254 f.) considers the name formula inverted, with the individual name pianu in line 2, the patronym in -(i)i̯- aśkonetio in line 1 (comparing VB·28 namu esopnio from nearby Levo; thus also Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 166 f., no. 14, Markey & Mees 2003: 139). Alternatively, pianu can be interpreted as a patronym in -ū, as per De Hoz 1990: 323 f. and Lejeune 1971: 53 (see The Cisalpine Celtic Languages); thus Solinas 1995: 372, no. 120, critical Eska 1995: 43 β.

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.
De Hoz 1990	Javier de Hoz, "El genitivo celtico de los temas en -o-", in: Francisco Villar (ed.), Studia indogermanica et palaeohispanica in honorem Antonio Tovar et Luis Michelena, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1990, 315–329.
Eska 1995	Joseph F. Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (eds), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33–46.