VB·30 Stresa

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Object
Classification: stela

Material: stone
Size: height 125 cm, width 45 cm, thickness 5.5 cm
Condition: unknown

Archaeological culture: unknown
Date: first half of 1st century BC
Date derived from: palaeography

Site: Stresa (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: Levo
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 53' 2.87" N, 8° 30' 27.10" E
Find date: 1887
Find circumstances: construction work
Current location: Museo di Antichità (Torino)
Inventory no.: St 497

Inscription: VB·30 (surica/ciponis/f)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): note xvii (a)
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 18b
Morandi 2004: 73

Sources: Morandi 2004: 569 no. 73

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Commentary

Mica schist stela with rounded top; see Levo for the find circumstances and context. Bought by Fabretti for the museum in Torino (De-Vit in Ferrero 1889: 262). Dating from Morandi.

Bibliography

Caramella & De Giuli 1993 Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.
Ferrero 1889 Ermanno Ferrero, "Regione XI. (Transpadana)", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1889), 261–262.