TI·31 Aranno

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Object
Classification:	slab
Material:	stone
Size:	length 42 cm, width 30 cm, depth 6 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B, La Tène C
Date:	4th–mid-2nd c. BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Aranno (Ticino, Switzerland)
Archaeological context:	tomb (Objects: TI·29 Aranno, TI·30 Aranno, TI·31 Aranno, TI·32 Aranno)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 1' 2.81" N, 8° 52' 27.14" E
Find date:	1841
Current location:	Museo del Malcantone (Curio)
Inventory no.:	6.1818.2
Inscription:	TI·31 (]aḷạ[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 272 b Solinas 1995: 1 D Motta 2000: 8 b Morandi 2004: 29
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 535–537 no. 29

Images

Fragment TI·31 Aranno with inscription TI·31

Commentary

Images in Mommsen 1853: Taf. I.5b (drawings by Pelli = CII: tab. I.1B a and b), CII: tab. LVIII.1B (drawing of a cast by Serafino Balestra ~ Pauli 1885: Taf. I.1b), Tibiletti Bruno 1965: 113 and 118 (photos) and 119 (drawing).

Fragment of a mica schist stela or slab, found in March 1841 a quarter of a mile from Aranno near the old street which leads from there via the Monte d'Iseo to Neggio, on the property of one Vittore Corti, at a depth of somewhat over half a metre, together with three other stone fragments. According to the first owner of the finds, Vittore Pelli from Aranno, they are the remains of a grave chamber, destroyed by the finders (Mommsen 1853: 202 f., no. 5). Differently Crivelli 1940: 333, who gives the find year as 1818 and locates Corti's property in the locality Màrtera. See Tibiletti Bruno 1965: 105–109 for a discussion of the find circumstances.

The four fragments from Aranno were thus originally thought to be parts of the same stela despite not fitting together. Rhŷs 1913: 23 determined them to belong to at least two stones, Tibiletti Bruno 1965 (also 1968c: 356) to be fragments of four different stelae which had been reused for the Aranno tomb. Built into a wall of Pelli's house (later the Osteria della Posta; photo and drawing in Tibiletti Bruno 1965: 106 f.) until May 2000, they were removed on occasion of the I Leponti exhibition. Dating according to De Marinis & Motta 1991: 206, who tentatively classify the document as their type C although the execution of the ends of the frames is unknown (but cf. TI·30 Aranno).

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.
Crivelli 1940	Aldo Crivelli, "La iscrizione nord-etruscha di Aranno", Rivista Storica Ticinese 3 (1940), 333.