VB·26
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| Reading in transliteration: | tunal / koimila |
| Reading in original script: |         
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| Object: | VB·26 Stresa (stela) |
| Position: | top, front |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Frame: |  (left: none, middle: all, right: none)
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| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| adapted to: | Latin script |
| Number of letters: | 12 |
| Number of words: | 2 |
| Number of lines: | 2 |
| Workmanship: | carved |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D 2 [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | funerary |
| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 301 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 16 Solinas 1995: 125 Morandi 2004: 69 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 565–567 no. 69 |
Images
 Stela VB·26 Stresa with inscription VB·26
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 Inscription VB·26
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Commentary
First published in Ferrero 1889: 262 (e).
Images in Ferrero 1889: 262 (drawing), Ponti 1896: 153, no. 186 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), Ferrero 1897: 57 (drawing from Fabretti's calque = Danielsson 1909: 28).
Inscribed between three horizontal lines, the uppermost ca. 25 cm from the top of the stela (Whatmough). Reading with Latin nu and (inverted) mu in Ferrero 1897: 57 f., no. 1; discussion of -al already there and in Danielsson 1909: 28 f. (koimi latunal(i), thus also Jacobsohn 1927: 30, no. 188, and Whatmough PID 107, no. 301, according to whom nu is 
, mu is 
), Rhŷs 1913: 53 f., no. 3 (koimila tunal(a)), Terracini 1927: 146, Pisani 1964: 282 f., no. 119 E (koimila tunal), Tibiletti Bruno 1978c: 23 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 152, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 169 f., no. 16 (tunal koimila), Solinas 1995: 374, no. 125, Morandi 2004: 565–567, no. 69.
See also Krahe 1936: 247, Untermann 1960: 305.
Bibliography
| Caramella & De Giuli 1993 | Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993. |
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| Danielsson 1909 | Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909. |
| Ferrero 1889 | Ermanno Ferrero, "Regione XI. (Transpadana)", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1889), 261–262. |
| Ferrero 1897 | Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60. |
