TI·33 Bedigliora
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| Classification: | stela |
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| Material: | stone |
| Size: | height 71 cm, width 46 cm, depth 7 cm |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène B, La Tène C |
| Date: | 4th–mid-2nd c. BC |
| Date derived from: | typology |
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| Site: | Bedigliora (Ticino, Switzerland) |
| Field name: | Banco |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 0' 39.92" N, 8° 50' 33.03" E |
| Find date: | 1913 |
| Find circumstances: | building work |
| Finder: | Mario Ferretti |
| Current location: | Ufficio Cantonale dei Beni Culturali (Bellinzona) |
| Inventory no.: | 19.1913.1 |
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| Inscription: | TI·33 (]nialui:pala) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 273 Solinas 1995: 2 Motta 2000: 7 Morandi 2004: 31 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 537 no. 31 |
Images
 Drawing of TI·33 Bedigliora with inscription TI·33 )nialui : pala
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 Stela fragment TI·33 Bedigliora (photograph by C. Reguzzi)
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 Fragment TI·33 Bedigliora with inscription TI·33
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Commentary
Images in Giussani 1914: 57, fig. 3 (photo) and 59, fig. 4 (drawing).
Fragment of a beola gneiss stela found in early July 1913 during the repair of the public washhouse of Banco, where it was used to cover the drainage canal (Giussani 1914: 56). According to the surveyor Mario Ferretti, whose report is published in Giussani's article, the fragment is likely to come from a necropolis which was excavated near the ossuary of S. Maria di Banco in 1852: a number of tombs built with slabs and equipped with ceramic and bronze objects were unearthed and the stones removed, the inscribed fragment ending up as building material for the washhouse. Pieces are missing both on top and at the bottom; preserved is part of the body of the anthropomorphic frame with part of the neck. Dating according to De Marinis & Motta 1991: 206 – the authors tentatively ascribe the stela to their type B, but type C seems more appropriate with regard to the clear definition of a neck (cf. esp. TI·36.1/TI·36.2).
