TI·27 Mezzovico-Vira

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Object
Proper name:	Stela of Mezzovico
Classification:	stela
Archaeological Type:	De Marinis B
Material:	stone
Material composition:	granite gneiss
Size:
Extension (h×w×d):	275 cm108.268 in <br /> × 28 cm11.024 in <br /> × 42 cm16.535 in <br />
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5th / beginning of 4th century BC
Site:	Mezzovico-Vira (Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	guesthouse "La Palazzina"
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 5' 12.21" N, 8° 55' 10.93" E
Find date:	March 1984
Find circumstances:	construction work
Finder:	Luigi Coldesina (reputed finder)
Current location:	Museo Civico e Archeologico (Locarno)
Inscriptions:	TI·27.1 (kuaśoni:pala:telialui) TI·27.2 (akiuip?ụotialui)
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 20 Motta 2000: 3 Morandi 2004: 26, 26 bis, 280
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 533-534 & 707-708 & 784 (pl. VII.24) Motta 2000: 198-199 Solinas 1995: 327-328

Images

Stela TI·27 Mezzovico-Vira with inscription TI·27.1 from Morandi

Stela TI·27 Mezzovico-Vira with inscription TI·27.1 from Motta

Commentary

Normally positioned at the wall of the guesthouse "Le Palazzina" in Mezzovico but now (2004) taken to Locarno for restauration work.
Dating: Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1003-1005 dates this Stela due to the iconography to a late phase (degenerated representation of a human silouhette).

• Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1003-1005, 1007, 1011-1015, 1018-1020 (detailed description, discussion and comparison with other Lepontic inscriptions)

Bibliography

De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.
Donati 1985	Pierangelo Donati, "Mezzovico-Vira, distr. di Lugano, TI", Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte 68 (1985), 231.