VB·28

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	namu / esopnio
Reading in original script:

Object:	VB·28 Stresa (stela)
Position:	top, front
Orientation:	0°
Frame:	(left: none, middle: all, right: none)
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	11
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete

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

Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Namu the Esopnian'

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 303 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 18 Solinas 1995: 127 Morandi 2004: 71

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 567 f. no. 71

Images

Stela VB·28 Stresa with inscription VB·28 from Solinas 1995

Stela VB·28 Stresa with inscription VB·28

Inscription VB·28

De Vit 1889: pp. 261-262
Ferrero 1897: pp. 58-9
Rhŷs 1913: p. 72, n.7, 1
Lejeune 1971: p. 72, note 249
Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 153-154
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 171-172, n.18
Solinas 1995: p. 374, n. 127, Tav. LXVIIIa
Eska 1995: 43 α (in the Appendix he discusses the alternative interpretation of De Hoz 1990: pp. 323-324)

Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.
Danielsson 1909	Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.
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.
Eska 1995	Joseph F. Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (eds), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33–46.
Ferrero 1889	Ermanno Ferrero, "Regione XI. (Transpadana)", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1889), 261–262.
Ferrero 1897	Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60.