TI·34.1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	aui : pala :
Reading in original script:
Variant reading:	?aui pala (Morandi), aui : pala : (Motta), aại : pala (Solinas, Giussani), ai : pala (Lejeune)
Object:	TI·34 Capriasca (stela) (Inscriptions: TI·34.1, TI·34.2, TI·34.3)
Position:	front
Orientation:	270°
Frame:	?  (left: round, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script
Number of letters:	7–8
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date of inscription:	5th / 4th century BC
Type:	funerary
Language:	Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	NPOBindir NPSUB
Meaning:	"Grave(stone) for Auos"
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 268 a Solinas 1995: 27 Aa Motta 2000: 5 A1 Morandi 2004: 32 Aa
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 538 & 536 (fig. 9.32A) Motta 2000: 200 Solinas 1995: 331 Lejeune 1971: 81

Images

Inscriptions TI·34.3 (above), TI·34.1 (centre) and TI·34.2 (below) from Giussani

Inscriptions TI·34.1 (above) and TI·34.2 (below) from Morandi

Commentary

The inscription is located inside of a schematic human figurine, the left side is certainly complete (cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1005-1006). After the punctuation marks, where the head of the figurine starts, the inscription ends. Since this inscription is younger than the other one on the same side of the gravestone and therefore can not be a part of it, the punctuation marks after pala are probably to be understood as a mark of the end of the sentence. (Motta 2000: 200)

• Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 50
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 137-138
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 268 a-b
• Crivelli 1943: p. 33, figg. 51-52 (photographies)
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 36, n.3
• Rhŷs 1914: p. 319, Tav. I
• De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: pp. 204, 206, 208 and 218 (G IIIA)
• Solinas 1995: p. 331, n.27
• Motta 2000: p. 200, n.5 (reading: aui)

Bibliography

Crivelli 1943	Aldo Crivelli, Atlante preistorico e storico della Svizzera Italiana. Vol. 1: Dalle origini alla civiltà romana, Bellinzona: Istituto Editoriale Ticinese 1943.
De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.