TI·27.2

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	akiuip?ụotialui
Reading in original script:	?
Object:	TI·27 Mezzovico-Vira (stela) (Inscriptions: TI·27.1, TI·27.2)
Position:	side
Frame:	?  (left: round, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	6–11 cm2.362 in <br />4.331 in <br />
Number of letters:	15
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B
Date of inscription:	4th–3rd c BC
Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'for Akios son of Piuotios'
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 26 bis, 280
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 707 f. no. 280

Images

Inscription TI·27.2 from Morandi

Commentary

First published in Morandi 2004: 707 f., no. 280 (=26bis).

Images in Morandi 2004: 708 (drawing).

Applied on one of the sides adjacent to the one with TI·27.1, the damaged inscription was only detected (by Riccardo Carazzetti) during the stela's restauration in the early 2000s (length ca. 117 cm). Despite the bad legibility, Morandi's reading allows the identification of the binominal formula naming the deceased; the patronym can be amended to piuotialui, which also appears in TI·36.2 (see the word pages for details).

Morandi assumes it to be secondary to and a rough imitation of TI·27.1 and thus dates it to the 3^rd c. BC.

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.