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 Kalatos' |
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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.
Images in Spagnolo Garzoli 2009: 41, fig. 25 (photo = Solinas 2022: 857, fig. 1a [in greyscale]), Gambari 2011: 27, fig. 12 (photo).
Fairly well legible except for sigma in the first line, which had to be squeezed in; in the second line, the last two letters did not fit 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 or ancestor, unless the stone was a boundary marker as assumed by Gambari 2011: 27 f. (See the object page on the function of the structure in which the stela was found.)
