BI·4 Cerrione

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Object
Classification: stela

Material: stone
Size: height 165 cm, width 66 cm, depth 35 cm
Condition: complete, damaged

Archaeological culture: Roman republican period
Date: 100–40 BC
Date derived from: archaeological context

Site: Cerrione (Biella, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: Cerrione necropolis
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 27' 33.69" N, 8° 4' 31.50" E
Find date: between 1994 and 2002
Find circumstances: excavation
Current location: Museo del Territorio Biellese (Biella)
Inventory no.: 86402

Inscription: BI·4 (esonius:urenti/akitu:esonius/ueriounos)

Alternative sigla: none

Sources: Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 45–48

Images

Commentary

Images in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 46 (photo and drawing).

Pyramidal schist stela, damaged on the upper edge. Found without immediate context in the north-western sector of the Cerrione necropolis, on the south-western edge of grave 173; dated to phase 1 (100–40 BC) based on the overall distribution of the graves and the dating of the other stelae with Lepontic inscriptions. See Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 25, 45–48.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Brecciaroli Taborelli 2011 Luisa Brecciaroli Taborelli (ed.), Oro, pane e scrittura. Memorie di una comunità "inter Vercellas et Eporediam" [= Studi e ricerche sulla Gallia Cisalpina 24], Roma: Edizioni Quasar 2011.
Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013 Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, Microstorie di romanizzazione. Le iscrizioni del sepolcreto rurale di Cerrione, Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2013.