VB·22 Stresa

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Object
Classification: stela

Material: stone
Size: height 58 cm, width 55 cm, thickness 6 cm
Condition: fragmentary

Archaeological culture: La Tène D
Date: 1st c. 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·22 (aśkonetio/pianu)

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

Sources: Morandi 2004: 563 f. no. 65

Images

Commentary

Image in De Giuli 1979: 246, fig. 1 (photo).

Fragmentary (?) mica schist stela, found together with VB·23 Stresa, VB·24 Stresa, VB·25 Stresa and an anepigraphic stela as covering of a mediaeval tomb in the locality Le Piane in Brisino (Morandi). Dating according to Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 254; Morandi says late 2nd c. BC. See also Caramella & De Giuli 1993: 207.

Bibliography

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.