TI·25

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	anteśilu
Reading in original script:
Object:	TI·25 Locarno (pot)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	8
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Anteśilu'
Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 6 Solinas 1995: 25 Motta 2000: 26 Morandi 2004: 23
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 531 f. no. 23

Images

Drawing of inscription TI·25 from Morandi	Inscription TI·25 from Motta	Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25 from Solinas	Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25	Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25
Inscription TI·25

Commentary

First published in Tibiletti Bruno 1965d.

Images in Solinas 1995: tav. LXIVb and LXVa, Morandi 1999: 167 (drawing) and 192, p. V.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VI.23), Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VI.23 (photo).

Inscribed on the shoulder of the olla along the neck; well legible. anteśilu is a masculine personal name in the nominative; see the word page for details.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Crivelli 1939	Aldo Crivelli, "La necropoli preromana di Solduno", Rivista Storica Ticinese 2/3 (1939), 193–200.