VB·24 Stresa

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Object
Classification:	stela
Material:	stone
Size:	height 170 cm, width 58 cm, thickness 6 cm
Condition:	complete, broken, repaired
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:	first half of 1st century BC
Date derived from:	palaeography
Site:	Stresa (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	Brisino
Archaeological context:	medieval tomb (Objects: VB·22 Stresa, VB·23 Stresa, VB·24 Stresa, VB·25 Stresa)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 52' 21.06" N, 8° 33' 15.36" E
Find date:	1975
Current location:	Museo Civico Antiquarium (Mergozzo)
Inscription:	VB·24 (exobna/diuconis/f)
Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15a Morandi 2004: 67
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 564 f. no. 67

Images

Stela VB·24 Stresa with inscription VB·24 from De Giuli 1979

Stela VB·24 Stresa with inscription VB·24

Commentary

Image in De Giuli 1979: 248, fig. 5 (photo).

Mica schist stela with rounded top, broken into two pieces in the upper part. Found together with VB·22 Stresa, VB·23 Stresa, VB·25 Stresa and an anepigraphic stela as covering of a mediaeval tomb in the locality Le Piane in Brisino (Morandi). See also Caramella & De Giuli 1993: 207.

Bibliography

AE	Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–.
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.