CO·48
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Proper name: | Inscription of Prestino |
Reading in transliteration: | uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu |
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Object: | CO·48 Prestino (slab) |
Position: | front |
Orientation: | 0° |
Frame: | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
Number of letters: | 49 |
Number of words: | 6 |
Number of lines: | 1 |
Workmanship: | carved |
Condition: | complete |
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Archaeological culture: | Golasecca III A 1 [from object] |
Date of inscription: | second quarter of the 5th c. BC [from object] |
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Type: | dedicatory |
Language: | Celtic |
Meaning: | 'Uvamokozis Plialeθu dedicated the seats (?) to the Uvltiauioi and the Ariuones' |
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Alternative sigla: | Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 23 Solinas 1995: 65 Motta 2000: 2 Morandi 2004: 180 |
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Sources: | Morandi 2004: 638–640 |
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Commentary
Alternate readings were due to "orthographical/etymological" concerns, and not to graphematic reasons. (Markey & Mees 2003: pp. 128-130, fn. 5, cp. Eska 1998c: p. 67, Schmidt 1986: p. 202, Tibiletti Bruno 1966b, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 141-142, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 177-181, Prosdocimi 1967: pp. 200-209, Prosdocimi 1986: pp. 233-234, 240-241), Morandi 2004, fig. 22.180 & 801 (pl. XXIV.180), Solinas 1995: 343-345, Lejeune 1971: 96-111, Markey & Mees 2003: 116-119 & 126-160 & 144-145
Graphems of Prestino compared with other inscriptions: Markey & Mees 2003: pp. 130-137, cp. Lejeune 1974: p. 343, Prosdocimi 1967: pp. 201-205.
Syntax: Markey & Mees 2003: 137-145, Prosdocimi 1967: 205-209, Prosdocimi 1986: 236-237; Metric: Markey & Mees 2003: 157-160, Eska & Mercado 2005: 177 f.
Tibiletti Bruno 1966b sees a connection between the toponym Airuno/Eiruno and ariuonepos of the inscription (see: Olivieri 1931: p. 71 and Pellegrini 1981: p. 58)
- Tibiletti Bruno 1966b: pp. 276-319
- Tibiletti Bruno 1968: pp. 385-395
- Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: pp. 350-354
- Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: pp. 232-234, nr. 77
- Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 141-142
- Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 157-207, n. 23
- Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 87-105 (iconography, palaeography and confr. with other stone inscriptions)
- Prosdocimi 1967: pp. 199-222
- Pellegrini 1969: ?
- Lejeune 1971: pp. 96-111, Pl. XII (cf. Prosdocimi 1986: 229 Celtic grammatical elements of the Prestino inscription after Lejeune)
- Ferri 1967
- Campanile 1968: pp. 207-213 (critical commentary on Tibiletti Bruno 1966b and Prosdocimi 1967)
- Campanile 1981: p. 178
- Morandi 1982: pp. 188-189, n. 69, Tav. XLI, 1
- Motta 1983
- Pellegrini 1983: p. 36 fn. 21, pp. 37-38
- Prosdocimi 1986: pp. 225-250 (commentary on Tibiletti Bruno 1966b, Prosdocimi 1967, Campanile 1968, Lejeune 1971, Motta 1983 and a new commentary on the Prestino inscription on pp. 232-250)
- Prosdocimi 1987: 567–574
- De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: p. 19, fn. 2
- Motta 1992: 313-314
- Motta 2000: p. 197, n. 2
- Lambert 1994: p. 21
- Meid 1996: p. 260
- Meid 1999: pp. 16-17
- Eska 1998c: pp. 66-68
- De Bernardo Stempel 2005: pp. 189-190
- Mees 2008 (metric)
Bibliography
Campanile 1968 | Enrico Campanile, "Su due interpretazioni della iscrizione di Prestino", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 8 (1968), 207–213. |
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De Bernardo Stempel 1990 | Patrizia De Bernardo Stempel, "Einige Beobachtungen zu indogermanischem /w/ im Keltischen", in: Ann T. E. Matonis, Daniel Frederick Melia, Celtic language, Celtic culture. Festschrift for Eric P. Hamp, Van Nuys: Ford & Bailie 1990, 26-46. |
De Bernardo Stempel 2014 | Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, "Livelli di celticità linguistica nell'Italia settentrionale", in: Philippe Barral, Jean-Paul Guillaumet, Marie-Jeanne Roulière-Lambert, Massimo Saracino, Daniele Vitali (eds), Les Celtes et le Nord de l'Italie. Premier er Second Âges du fer. Actes du XXXVIe colloque international de l'AFEAF, Vérone, 17–20 mai 2012 [= Revue Archéologique de l'Est Suppl. 36], Dijon: 2014, 89–102. |
De Hoz 1992 | Javier de Hoz, "Lepontic, Celt-Iberian, Gaulish and the archaeological evidence", Études celtiques 29 (1992), 223–240. |
De Simone 1978 | Carlo De Simone, "I Galli in Italia: testimonianze linguistiche", in: Paola Santoro (ed.), I Galli e l'Italia, Roma: De Luca 1978, 261–269. |
De Simone 1988 | Carlo de Simone, "Iscrizioni messapiche della Grotta della Poesia (Melendugno, Lecce)", Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di lettere e filosofia 18 (1988), 325–415. |
Dupraz 2015 | Emmanuel Dupraz, "Nochmals zum lepontischen Digraphen uv-", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 69,1 (2015), 33–50. |
Eska & Mercado 2005 | Joseph Francis Eska, Angelo O. Mercado, "Observations on verbal art in ancient Vergiate", Historische Sprachforschung 118 (2005), 160-184. |
Eska 1998c | Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80. |
Eska 2013 | Joseph F. Eska, "A salvage grammar of Galatian", Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 60 (2013), 51–63. |
Eska 2013b | Joseph F. Eska, "In defense of Celtic /φ/", in: Adam I. Cooper, Jeremy Rau, Michael Weiss, Multi nominis grammaticus. Studies in classical and Indo-European linguistics in honor of Alan J. Nussbaum on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press 2013, 32–43. |
Eska 2024d | Joseph F. Eska, "Digamma and Prestino and related matters", Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 71/1 (2024), 77–96. |
ET² | Gerhard Meiser, Etruskische Texte. Editio minor, auf Grundlage der Erstausgabe von †Helmut Rix neu bearbeitet in Zusammenarbeit mit Valentina Belfiore und Sindy Kluge. Teil 1: Einleitung, Konkordanz, Indizes, Teil 2: Texte, 2nd, revised edition [= Studien zur historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft 4], Hamburg: Baar 2014. |
Ferri 1967 | Silvio Ferri, "Esigenze archeologiche - VIII", Studi Classici e Orientali 16 (1967), 417–435. |