TI·35

edit with form

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]osik[ / ]?uka[
Reading in original script:	][ ]?[
Object:	TI·35 Ponte Capriasca (stela)
Position:	front
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: all, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B, La Tène C [from object]
Date of inscription:	4th–mid-2nd c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 20 bis Motta 2000: 9 Morandi 2004: 33
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 539 no. 33

Images

Stela fragment TI·35 Ponte Capriasca (photograph by C. Reguzzi)

Fragment TI·35 Ponte Capriasca with inscription TI·35

Commentary

First published in Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 139 f.

Image in Motta 2000: 204 (photo).

The fragment preserves parts of two lines, each written inside frame lines. Reading of the letters according to Tibiletti Bruno, who considers both lines to be complete on top – is the trace after kappa in line 1 the neck of the anthropomorphic frame? In that case, the stela could be classified as type C according to the typology of De Marinis & Motta 1991: 206 – thus Motta 2000: 204, although he, like Morandi 2004, considers both lines to be incomplete also on top (]osik[ / ]iuka[). Morandi observes that an additional vertical line disturbs alpha in line 2 (]osik?[ / ]?iukạị[), possibly iota to form a feminine dative ending.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.