TI·39

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	piuonei : tekialui : lala
Reading in original script:
Object:	TI·39 Sorengo (stela)
Position:	front
Orientation:	270°
Frame:	(left: head, middle: top and bottom, right: feet)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	19
Number of words:	3
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	destroyed
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B, La Tène C
Date of inscription:	4th–mid-2nd c. BC
Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'pala for Piu son of Tekios'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 271 Solinas 1995: 26 bis Morandi 2004: 36
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 541 no. 36

Images

Inscription TI·39 from Giussani

Inscription TI·39 from Monti

Commentary

First published in Monti 1860: 59.

Images in Monti 1860: 59 (drawing = CII: tav. I.2ter), CII: tav. LVIII (drawing = Oberziner 1883: 168 = Pauli 1885: Taf. I.14 = Giussani 1902: 35, fi. 4 = Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 81 [all redrawn more or less accurately]).

Though few data are available due to the early loss of the document (see the object page), the drawings provided by Monti and Fabretti, both of whom saw the inscription, do not indicate significant uncertainties about the shapes of the letters and frame. The third sequence lala has since Pauli 1885: 71 been interpreted as a writing error for pala. The inscription thus contains the standard version of the funerary formula with individual name and patronym in -al- in the dative followed by pala (see the word pages for details).

Dating according to De Marinis & Motta 1991: 206, who classify the document as their type C based on Fabretti's drawing of the frame (with stylised feet and eyes).

See also CII: iii, no. 2ter, Addenda et Corrigenda, c.2033, Corssen 1874–1875: 942–944, Oberziner 1883: 168 f., Pauli 1885: 8, no. 14, Giussani 1902: 35, no. 3, Rhŷs 1913: 20 f., no. 6, Jacobsohn 1927: 31, no. 196, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 135 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 89, Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1013 f.

Corinna Salomon

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.
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.