TI·24

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	śium
Reading in original script:
Object:	TI·24 Locarno (bottle)
Position:	shoulder
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	4
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	unknown
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 278
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 706 no. 278

Images

Drawing of inscription TI·24 from Morandi

Fiasca a trottola TI·24 Locarno with inscription TI·24

Inscription TI·24

Commentary

First published in De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000 II: 462, no. 540.

Image in Morandi 2004: 706.

Inscribed on the shoulder of the vessel; mu appears with only three bars, which is irregular in the Lepontic alphabet, and the bars are very short. The sequence śium should be expected to be an abbreviation of a personal name, but no comparanda are available in Gaulish onomastics (see the word page).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (eds), I leponti tra mito e realtà. Raccolta di saggi in occasione della mostra Locarno, Castello Visconteo - Casorella, 20 maggio - 3 dicembre 2000, Verbania: Armando Dadò Editore 2000.