VB·23

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: kiketu / ṛẹṭalos
Reading in original script: K dI dK dE dT dU3 d
R dE dT dA dL dO2 dS s

Object: VB·23 Stresa (stela)
Position: front
Orientation:
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters: 13
Number of words: 2
Number of lines: 2
Workmanship: carved
Condition: damaged

Archaeological culture: La Tène D 2 [from object]
Date of inscription: 1st c. BC [from object]

Type: funerary
Language: Celtic
Meaning: 'Kiketu son of Retos' (?)

Alternative sigla: Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15
Solinas 1995: 121
Morandi 2004: 66

Sources: Morandi 2004: 564 no. 66

Images

Commentary

First published in De Giuli 1979: 247.

Images in De Giuli 1979: 247, fig. 2 (photo and drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 259, fig. 3 (drawing).

On the difficult reading Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 257–260 (257), who interprets retalos as a patronym in -al-, pointing to the late appearance of the suffix in NO·18 (Miasino) (thus also Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 167 f., no. 15, Solinas 1995: 372, no. 121). Differently Markey & Mees 2003: 139, who appear to regard kiketu as a patronym in -ū (see The Cisalpine Celtic Languages).

See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978c: 24 f.

Bibliography

Caramella & De Giuli 1993 Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.
De Giuli 1978 Alberto De Giuli, "Le stele funerarie di Brisino", Bollettino Storico per la Provincia di Novara 69/1 (1978), 13–20.
De Giuli 1979 Alberto De Giuli, "Le stele funerarie di Brisino", Sibrium 14 (1978–1979), 245–252.
De Hoz 1990 Javier de Hoz, "El genitivo celtico de los temas en -o-", in: Francisco Villar (ed.), Studia indogermanica et palaeohispanica in honorem Antonio Tovar et Luis Michelena, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1990, 315–329.