TI·23

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	setupokios
Reading in original script:
Object:	TI·23 Locarno (pot)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	1–2 cm0.394 in <br />0.787 in <br />
Number of letters:	10
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete, damaged
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Setupokios'
Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 5 Solinas 1995: 24 Motta 2000: 25 Morandi 2004: 24
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 532 no. 24

Images

Drawing of inscription TI·23 from Morandi

Inscription TI·23 from Motta

Olla TI·23 Locarno with inscription TI·23

Inscription TI·23 Locarno

Commentary

First published in Tibiletti Bruno 1965c. Examined for LexLep on 17^th October 2023.

Images in Solinas 1995: tav. LXII d and LXIV a, Morandi 1999: 166 (drawing) and 192, pl. V.1 (photo = Motta 2000: 214, fig. 22a = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VII.24), Motta 2000: 214, fig. 22b (photo = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VII.24).

Inscribed on the shoulder of the olla along the neck (length 7 cm); well legible. The letters are preserved on three separate fragments, but only final sigma is damaged in the lower area, but a small trace indicates that it is like initial sigma rather than .

setupokios is a dithematic masculine personal name in the nominative which is also attested on the Briona stela and abbreviated in MI·6; see the word page for details. If the grave in which the inscription was found is indeed that of a woman (thus Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 159), the inscription is more likely to be that of a previous owner of the vessel than to have a connection with the burial.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Crivelli 1939	Aldo Crivelli, "La necropoli preromana di Solduno", Rivista Storica Ticinese 2/3 (1939), 193–200.