BI·1
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| Reading in transliteration: | lukios / sipionios |
| Reading in original script: |         
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| Object: | BI·1 Cerrione (stela) |
| Position: | front |
| Orientation: | 270° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 6.5–12 cm2.559 in <br />4.724 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 15 |
| 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: | 'Lukios (son) of Sipiu' |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 40–42 no. 5 |
Images
 Stela BI·1 Cerrione with inscription BI·1
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 Stela BI·1 Cerrione with inscription BI·1 from Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013
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 Stela BI·1 Cerrione with inscription BI·1 from Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013
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Commentary
First published in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011: 91 f.
Images in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011: 91, fig. 84 (photo = Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 41 [in colour]), Brecciaroli Taborelli 2011: 383, tav. 2 (drawing = Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 41).
Inscribed in two dextroverse lines running downward in the upper part of the stela; well legible.
We agree with Solinas (p. 41) that the lines are likely supposed to be read in succession from left to right: lukios sipionios, which preserves the expected order of the onomastic elements: 'Lukios (son) of Sipiu' – cf. at the same find place BI·5, BI·6, BI·8, as well as NO·21.1 and maybe GR·1.
The grammar and form of the inscription, with o-stem individual name in -os and appositive in -ii̯-, are Celtic. The father's name may be etymologically Celtic, but the individual name lukios is Celticised Latin lucius; see the word pages for details.
The name of the father sipiu is attested as the individual name of the deceased in BI·8 at the same find place, dated somewhat earlier, and may well refer to the same person. Cf. also BI·5 )ionios, possibly another son.
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. |
