TI·8

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	atepu
Reading in original script:

Object:	TI·8 Giubiasco (cup)
Position:	bottom, outside
Orientation:	180°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	0.6–1.1 cm0.236 in <br />0.433 in <br />
Number of letters:	5
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	75–25 BC [from object]

Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Atepu'

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 259 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 1 Solinas 1995: 7 Motta 2000: 17 Morandi 2004: 9

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 523 f.

Images

Inscription TI·8 from Morandi 2004	Inscription TI·8 from Morandi 2004	Cup TI·8 Giubiasco with inscription TI·8 from Motta 2000	Inscription TI·8 from Solinas 1995	Cup TI·8 Giubiasco with inscription TI·8
Inscription TI·8

First published in Herbig 1906: 192, no. 11. Examined for LexLep on 19^th July 2021.

Images in Herbig 1906: 190, no. 11 (drawing), Rhŷs 1913: tav. III (photo), Crivelli 1973b: tav. 8.1 (drawing), Solinas 1995: tav. LXIc (photo), Motta 2000: 209, fig. 13 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 525, fig. 8.9 (drawing) and tav. V.9 (photo), Pernet et al. 2006: 233, fig. 6.39 = pl. sub 442.13 (drawing).

Inscribed upside-down on the bottom close to the foot (length 1.9 cm) with small, but unambiguous letters (upsilon considerably larger and offset to the bottom): atepu (Herbig; Rhŷs 1913: 23, no. 1; Whatmough 1933: 77, no. 259; Crivelli 1943: 53; Pisani 1953 = 1964: no. 120 G; Lejeune 1971: 61, 66; Tibiletti Bruno 1975b: 54; Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 143; Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 157, no. 1; Solinas 1995: 323, no. 7; Motta 2000: 209, no. 17; Morandi 2004; Pernet et al. 2006: 229, tab. 6.2).

The form is a Celtic hypocoristic personal name in the nominative; see the word page for details.

Crivelli 1943	Aldo Crivelli, Atlante preistorico e storico della Svizzera Italiana. Vol. 1: Dalle origini alla civiltà romana, Bellinzona: Istituto Editoriale Ticinese 1943.
Crivelli 1973b	Aldo Crivelli, "Cronologia protostorica della Valpadana dal IV al I sec. a.C.", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como 152–155 (1970–1973), 427–474.