VB·21 Verbania

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Object
Classification: stela

Material: stone
Size: height 192 cm, width 53 cm, thickness 5–9 cm
Condition: complete
Autopsy by: Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy: Apr 20 2024

Archaeological culture: Augustan, Tiberian
Date: late 1st c. BC–early 1st c. AD
Date derived from: typology

Site: Verbania (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: Zoverallo
Archaeological context: tomb
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 56' 44.08" N, 8° 34' 34.81" E
Find date: 1838
Finder: Filippo Ponti
Current location: Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica "Enrico Bianchetti" (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.: none

Inscription: VB·21 (leucuro/moconis/f)

Alternative sigla: Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15c
Morandi 2004: 64

Sources: Morandi 2004: 563 no. 64

Images

Commentary

Image in Müller 1913: tav. IV and V (drawings).

Large rectangular mica schist stela which formed the covering of a tomb found by the architect Filippo Ponti in 1838 in Zoverallo, probably belonging to the sporadically discovered necropolis (Barocelli 1918: 89). Morandi dates the document to the middle of the 1st c. BC – a high dating which matches his datings of the Stresa stelae. See also Müller 1913: 9–16.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Barocelli 1918 Pietro Barocelli, "III. Zoverallo. Necropoli di età romana. Scoperta di un nuova tomba", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità 15 (1918), 88–90.