BI·6
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| Reading in transliteration: | iouiku / uipios |
| Reading in original script: |      
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| Object: | BI·6 Cerrione (stela) |
| Position: | front |
| Orientation: | 270° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 7–10 cm2.756 in <br />3.937 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 12 |
| Number of words: | 2 |
| Number of lines: | 2 |
| Workmanship: | carved |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | Roman republican period [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 100–40 BC [from object] |
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| Type: | funerary |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Iouiku (son) of Uip(i)os' |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 43 f. no. 6 |
Images
 Stela BI·6 Cerrione with inscription BI·6 from Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013
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 Stela BI·6 Cerrione with inscription BI·6 from Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013
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Commentary
First published in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011: 92.
Images in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011: 93, fig. 87 (photo = Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 44 [in colour]), Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 44 (drawing).
Inscribed in two dextroverse lines running downward; well legible.
Solinas (p. 44) proposes that the lines should be read in succession from left to right iouiku uipios (cf. at the same find place BI·1, BI·5, BI·8, s well as NO·21.1 and maybe GR·1), but analyses the latter as the individual name, the former as an appositive in -ū. We prefer to read the inscription as the ones from Cerrione cited above, with iouiku as the individual name and uipios as the patronym in -ii̯-: 'Iouiku (son) of Uip(i)os'.
The grammar and form of the inscription, with on-stem individual name in -ū and appositive in -ii̯-, are Celtic, as is the individual name i̯ou̯inkū lit. 'the young one'. The father's name is difficult to classify; Solinas (p. 44) compares the name of the freedman uipio in a Latin inscription from the Cerrione necropolis (no. 45 in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013), but the latter is dated much later, and other options are feasible. See the word pages for details.
Bibliography
| Brecciaroli Taborelli 2011 | Luisa Brecciaroli Taborelli (ed.), Oro, pane e scrittura. Memorie di una comunità "inter Vercellas et Eporediam" [= Studi e ricerche sulla Gallia Cisalpina 24], Roma: Edizioni Quasar 2011. |
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| Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011 | Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, "Il messaggio epigrafico: Riconoscimento del sepolcro e strategia della memoria", in: Luisa Brecciaroli Taborelli (ed.), Oro, pane e scrittura. Memorie di una comunità "inter Vercellas et Eporediam" [= Studi e ricerche sulla Gallia Cisalpina 24], Roma: Edizioni Quasar 2011, 89–106. |
| Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013 | Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, Microstorie di romanizzazione. Le iscrizioni del sepolcreto rurale di Cerrione, Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2013. |
