VB·28
From Lexicon Leponticum
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| Reading in transliteration: | namu / esopnio |
| Reading in original script: |         
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| Object: | VB·28 Stresa (stela) |
| Position: | front, upper area"upper area" is not in the list (front, back, left-hand side, right-hand side, centre, top, bottom, neck, shoulder, foot, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property. |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Frame: |  (left: none, middle: all, right: none)
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| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | unknown |
| Number of letters: | 11 |
| 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: | prob. funerary |
| Language: | unknown |
| Syntactic analysis: | - |
| Meaning: | "Namu son of Esopnos" |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 303 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 18 Solinas 1995: 127 Morandi 2004: 71 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 567-568 Solinas 1994: 374-375 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 171-172 |
Images
 Stela VB·28 Stresa with inscription VB·28 from Solinas 1995
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 Stela VB·28 Stresa with inscription VB·28
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 Inscription VB·28
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Commentary
- De Vit 1889: pp. 261-262
- Ferrero 1897: pp. 58-9
- Rhŷs 1913: p. 72, n.7, 1
- Lejeune 1971: p. 72, note 249
- Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 153-154
- Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 171-172, n.18
- Solinas 1994: p. 374, n. 127, Tav. LXVIIIa
- Eska 1995: 43 α (in the Appendix he discusses the alternative interpretation of De Hoz 1990: pp. 323-324)
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. |
| De Hoz 1990 | Javier de Hoz, "El genitivo celtico de los temas en -o-", in: Francisco Villar (ed.), Studia indogermanica et palaeohispanica in honorem Antonio Tovar et Luis Michelena, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1990, 315–329. |
| Eska 1995 | Joseph F. Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (eds), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33–46. |
| 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. |
