TI·37

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: sunaḷei : makọ[
Reading in original script: ]O sK7 sA11 sM2 sseparator3 sI sE sL sA sN2 sU4 sS5 s

Object: TI·37 Viganello (stela)
Position: front
Orientation: 270°
Frame: ?top and bottomtop and bottomfeet  (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: feet)
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height: 15 cm5.906 in <br />
Number of letters: 11
Number of words: 2
Number of lines: 1
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: prob. funerary
Language: Celtic
Meaning: 'for Sunalis daughter of Mako° ...' (?)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 270
Solinas 1995: 28
Morandi 2004: 35

Sources: Morandi 2004: 540 f. no. 35

Images

Commentary

First published in CII: Addenda et Corrigenda, c.2033.

Images in CII: tav. LVIII, 2 quater 2 (drawing based on a squeeze by Balestra = Oberziner 1883: 174 = Pauli 1885: Taf. I.12), Giussani 1902: 40, fig. 9,

See also Corssen 1874–1875 I: 947, Oberziner 1883: 174, Pauli 1885: 7, no. 12, Giussani 1902: 39 f., no. 8, Rhŷs 1913: 12–14, no. 2, Jacobsohn 1927: 31, no. 199, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 139, Motta 2000: 206.

Bibliography

CII Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum antiquioris aevi. Ordine geographico digestum et glossarium italicum, in quo omnia vocabula continentur ex umbricis, sabinis, oscis, volscis, etruscis aliisque monumentis quae supersunt, Augusta Taurinorum: 1867.
Corssen 1874–1875 Paul Wilhelm Corssen, Über die Sprache der Etrusker, Leipzig: Teubner 1874–1875. (2 volumes)
Crivelli 1943 Aldo Crivelli, Atlante preistorico e storico della Svizzera Italiana. Vol. 1: Dalle origini alla civiltà romana, Bellinzona: Istituto Editoriale Ticinese 1943.
Delamarre 2007 Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
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.