VB·24

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	exobna / diuconis / f
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·24 Stresa (stela)
Position:	top, front
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	Latin script
Letter height:	8 cm3.15 in <br />
Number of letters:	15
Number of words:	3
Number of lines:	3
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Augustan, Tiberian [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 1st c. BC–early 1st c. AD [from object]
Type:	funerary
Language:	Latin
Meaning:	'Exobna daughter of Diuco'
Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15a Morandi 2004: 67
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 564 f. no. 67

Images

Gravestone from Bee with Latin inscription

Inscription VB·24 from De Giuli 1979

Stela VB·24 Stresa with inscription VB·24 from De Giuli 1979

Stela VB·24 Stresa with inscription VB·24

Commentary

First published in De Giuli 1979: 248.

Images in De Giuli 1979: 248 (photo fig. 3 drawing).

Latin name formula and Latin alphabet, but irregular forms of epsilon, nu and ksi. See Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 260–262, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 168, no. 15a, De Giuli 1979: 245, 251. Morandi 2004: 565 dates the inscription to the first half of the 1^st century BC based on the use of ⟨x⟩ rather than ⟨xs⟩, but this seems too early; the Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg (HD001987) dates the document to the 1^st century AD.

Bibliography

AE	Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–.
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.