NO·27
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| Reading in transliteration: | komeuioṣ / kalatikn / os |
| Reading in original script: |       ?    
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| Object: | NO·27 Dormelletto (stela) |
| Position: | front, centre |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| adapted to: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 8.5 cm3.346 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 18 |
| Number of words: | 2 |
| Number of lines: | 3 |
| Workmanship: | carved |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène C [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | second half of 2nd c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Komeuios son of Galatos' |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Gambari 2007: 256–258 |
Images
 Inscription NO·27
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Commentary
First published in Gambari 2007: 256–258.
Image in Gambari 2011: 27, fig. 12 (photo).
Our reading follows Gambari 2007. Well legible except for sigma in the first line, where the edge of the slab appears to be damaged. The last two letters did not fit in the second line and were written below its end. The shape of mu is Latinised; otherwise, the letters have traditional North Italic shapes. Gambari 2007: 257 argues that sigma with rounded lines was imported from Transalpine Gaul.
The text is a two-part name with individual name and patronym in -ikn-, presumably the name of a deceased person (unless the stone was a boundary marker as assumed by Gambari 2011: 27 f.).
