TI·9

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	remu
Reading in original script:
Variant reading:	reśu

Object:	TI·9 Giubiasco (bowl)
Position:	foot, outside
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	1.5–2 cm0.591 in <br />0.787 in <br />
Number of letters:	4
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D, La Tène C 2, Augustan [from object]
Date of inscription:	2^nd c. BC–early 1^st c. AD [from object]

Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Remu' (?)

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 258 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 2 Solinas 1995: 6 Motta 2000: 22 Morandi 2004: 10

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 524 no. 10

Images

Inscription TI·9 from Morandi 2004

Inscription TI·9 from Motta 2000

Mortarium TI·9 Giubiasco with inscription TI·9

Inscription TI·9

First published in Herbig 1906: 189, no. 2.

Images in Herbig 1906: 189, no. 2 (drawing), Rhŷs 1913: tav. IV (photo), Crivelli 1973b: tav. 8.9 (drawing), Solinas 1995: tav. LXIb (photo), Motta 2000: 212, fig. 19 (photo), Morandi 2004: tav. V.10 (photo), Pernet et al. 2006: 233, fig. 6.39 = pl. sub 93.11 (drawing).

Inscribed on the foot of the mortarium (length 3.5 cm). The letters are well legible and unambiguous. Herbig reads remu, as do Rhŷs 1913: 29 f., no. 9; Whatmough 1933: 76 f., no. 258; Crivelli 1943: 53; Pisani 1953 = 1964: no. 120 F; Lejeune 1971: 64. reśu is suggested by Tibiletti Bruno 1968b: § 1 (also Tibiletti Bruno 1976: 102, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 143 f.; Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 157 f., no. 2), followed by Solinas 1995: 323, no. 6; Motta 2000: 212, no. 22; Morandi 2004; Pernet et al. 2006: 229, tab. 6.2. , which occurs three times in inscriptions (potentially) from Giubiasco (TI·5 arimai, TI·7 amu?), is more likely to be Latin mu than a form of san which is otherwise unattested in the Lepontic alphabet (see Ś for a detailed discussion). In either case, the form is a Celtic hypocoristic personal name in the nominative; see the word pages for details.

Crivelli 1943	Aldo Crivelli, Atlante preistorico e storico della Svizzera Italiana. Vol. 1: Dalle origini alla civiltà romana, Bellinzona: Istituto Editoriale Ticinese 1943.
Crivelli 1973b	Aldo Crivelli, "Cronologia protostorica della Valpadana dal IV al I sec. a.C.", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como 152–155 (1970–1973), 427–474.