TI·27.2
From Lexicon Leponticum
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| Reading in transliteration: | akiuip?ụotialui |
| Reading in original script: |       ?  
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| Object: | TI·27 Mezzovico-Vira (stela) (Inscriptions: TI·27.1, TI·27.2) |
| Position: | side |
| Frame: |   ? (left: round, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
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| 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 |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène B |
| Date of inscription: | 4th–3rd c BC |
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| Type: | funerary |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'for Akios son of Piuotios' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 26 bis, 280 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 707 f. no. 280 |
Images
 Inscription TI·27.2 from Morandi
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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 3rd c. BC. See also Solinas 2002: 482 f., n. 6.
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. |
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