VB·21 Verbania
From Lexicon Leponticum
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| Classification: | stela |
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| Material: | stone |
| Size: | height 192 cm, width 53 cm, thickness 5–9 cm |
| Condition: | complete |
| Autopsy by: | Corinna Salomon |
| Date of autopsy: | Apr 20 2024 |
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| Archaeological culture: | Augustan, Tiberian |
| Date: | late 1st c. BC–early 1st c. AD |
| Date derived from: | typology |
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| Site: | Verbania (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy) |
| Field name: | Zoverallo |
| Archaeological context: | tomb |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 56' 44.08" N, 8° 34' 34.81" E |
| Find date: | 1838 |
| Finder: | Filippo Ponti |
| Current location: | Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica "Enrico Bianchetti" (Ornavasso) |
| Inventory no.: | none |
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| Inscription: | VB·21 (leucuro/moconis/f) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15c Morandi 2004: 64 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 563 no. 64 |
Images
 Stela VB·21 Verbania with inscription VB·21
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Commentary
Images in Müller 1913: tav. IV and V (drawings).
Large rectangular mica schist stela which formed the covering of a tomb found by the architect Filippo Ponti in 1838 in Zoverallo, probably belonging to the sporadically discovered necropolis (Barocelli 1918: 89). Morandi dates the document to the middle of the 1st c. BC – a high dating which matches his datings of the Stresa stelae. See also Müller 1913: 9–16.
Bibliography
| Barocelli 1918 | Pietro Barocelli, "III. Zoverallo. Necropoli di età romana. Scoperta di un nuova tomba", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità 15 (1918), 88–90. |
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| Caramella & De Giuli 1993 | Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993. |
