VS·2 Liddes
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Classification: | slab |
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Material: | stone |
Size: | 70 x 65 cm |
Condition: | complete |
Autopsy by: | Corinna Salomon |
Date of autopsy: | Jul 17 2024 |
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Archaeological culture: | La Tène D 2, Late Republican, Augustan |
Date: | 55–15 BC |
Date derived from: | archaeological context, natural science |
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Site: | Liddes (Wallis, Switzerland) |
Field name: | Mur d'Hannibal |
Archaeological context: | ST45/L16 |
Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 59' 6.54" N, 7° 13' 59.09" E |
Find date: | 2005 |
Finder: | Anne-Françoise Quartier-La-Tente |
Current location: | in situ |
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Inscription: | VS·2 (poenino/ieureu) |
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Alternative sigla: | none |
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Sources: | Aberson et al. 2021: 309–332 |
Commentary
Images in Casini et al. 2008: 92, fig. 23 (photo), Casini et al. 2013: 161, fig. 5 (photo).
The roundish, partly smoothed block of gneiss (65 x 70 cm) is inserted into a wall within structure 45/L16, a small dry stone chamber of ca. 1.2 x 0.5 x 0.7 m covered by a heavy slab. The function of the chamber, which is the only preserved building and unlike in shape than the other structures within the enclosing wall (see Mur d'Hannibal), is unclear; no objects were found inside it. See Andenmatten & Paccolat 2012: 91 and Aberson et al. 2021: 311 for details. Casini et al. 2013: 157 speculate that the chamber was built specifically to house/hide the inscribed stone.
Bibliography
Aberson et al. 2021 | Michel Aberson, Romain Andenmatten, Stefania Casini, Angelo E. Fossati, Rudolf Wachter, "Entre Celtes et Romains : la dédicace à Poeninos du Mur (dit) d'Hannibal", in: María José Estarán Tolosa, Emmanuel Dupraz, Michel Aberson (eds), Des mots pour les dieux. Dédicaces cultuelles dans les langues indigènes de la méditerranée occidentale, Berne: Peter Lang 2021, 309–332. |
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Andenmatten & Paccolat 2012 | Romain Andenmatten, Olivier Paccolat, "Le mur (dit) d'Hannibal: une site de haute montagne de la fin de l'âge de Fer. Avec les contributions d'Olivier Mermod, Angela Schlumbaum et Jacqueline Studer", Jahrbuch Archäologie Schweiz 95 (2012), 77-95. |
Casini et al. 2008 | Stefania Casini, Angelo Fossati, Filippo Motta, "Incisioni protostoriche e iscrizioni leponzie su roccia alle sorgenti del Brembo (Val Camisana di Carona, Bergamo). Note preliminari", Notizie Archeologice Bergomensi 16 (2008), 75–101. |
Casini et al. 2013 | Stefania Casini, Angelo E. Fossati, Filippo Motta, "L'iscrizione in alfabeto di Lugano al Mur d'Hannibal (Liddes, Valais)", Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 21 (2013), 157–165. |