BS·3 Voltino

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Object
Classification:	stela
Material:	stone
Material composition:	limestone
Size:
Extension (h×w):	90 cm35.433 in <br /> × 45 cm17.717 in <br />
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	Augustan
Date:	end of 1st century BC / beginning of 1st century AD
Site:	Voltino (fraction of: Tremosine, Brescia, Lombardia, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 47' 2.40" N, 10° 45' 57.60" E [from site]
Find date:	unknown, already mentioned by P. Gnocchi (1688-1781)
Current location:	Capitolium (Brescia)
Inventory no.:	MR 2786
Inscriptions:	BS·3.1 (tetumus/sexti/dugiaua/saśadis) BS·3.2 (θomezecuai/obauzanaθina)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 249 Morandi 2004: 233
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 670-671 & 806 (pl. XXIX)

Images

Stela BS·3 Voltino with inscriptions BS·3.1 and BS·3.2 from Morandi 2004

Commentary

• dating according to Morandi apud Gregori
• Schürr 2007
• Zavaroni 2008
• Koch 1983: pp. 1-37
• Eska 1989
• Hamp 1989

Bibliography

Eska & Wallace 2011	Joseph F. Eska, Rex E. Wallace, "Script and language at ancient Voltino", Alessandria 5 (2011), 93–113.
Eska 1989	Joseph Francis Eska, "Interpreting the Gaulish inscription of Voltino", Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 36 (1989), 106-107.