BG·41.19

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	anio : arpatimoi : risi : riaśana : tanatani : ị[  ]ueriopoi : iknoiso : oisenu ẹḳ[  ]ẹtiun : : piuos : upị[  ]apauatos : ase : katutiniois : sionpiri
Reading in original script:	[   ][   ][   ]
Object:	BG·41 Carona (rock) (Inscriptions: BG·41.1, BG·41.2, BG·41.3, BG·41.4, BG·41.5, BG·41.6, BG·41.7, BG·41.8, BG·41.9, BG·41.10, BG·41.11, BG·41.12, BG·41.13, BG·41.14, BG·41.15, BG·41.16, BG·41.17, BG·41.18, BG·41.19, BG·41.20, BG·41.21, BG·41.22, BG·41.23, BG·41.24, BG·41.25, BG·41.26, BG·41.27, BG·41.28, BG·41.29, BG·41.30)
Position:	unknown
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic Script"North Italic Script" is not in the list (Greek script, Etruscan script, Latin script, North Italic script, Camunic script, none, unknown) of allowed values for the "script" property.
Letter height:	0.9–2.5 cm0.354 in <br />0.984 in <br />
Number of letters:	112
Number of words:	16
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Casini et al. 2014: 191 (no. 27)

Commentary

First published in Casini et al. 2014: 191 (no. 27).

Images in Casini et al. 2014: 188, fig. 9 (photo [anio to ek[ ]) and 189, fig. 10 (drawing).

Length 77 cm. The inscription, applied in a sigle line, is disturbed by three lacunae, each of roughly five letters. The publishers seem confident about the double separator, and put a space between oisenu and e[. in katutiniois is given as in the drawing, though we suspect that the upper bar is not relevant, and sigma has the same shape here as in the other instances in the inscription.

The text – by far the longest one in the Cisalpine Celtic corpus – is largely obscure. Two individual names can be found in the nominative piuos, which is likely to be a different stem form of the well-attested PN piuon-, and probably the genitive iknoiso; recognisable Celtic endings, apart from -oiso, are the nominative plural -oi (twice) and, arguably, -s and -i. It can not at this point be excluded that the inscription consists of a list of names like NO·21.1, the now second longest text.

Bibliography

Casini et al. 2014	Stefania Casini, Angelo E. Fossati, Filippo Motta, "Nuove iscrizioni in alfabeto di Lugano sul masso Camisana 1 di Carona (Bergamo)", Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 22 (2014), 179–203.