BI·6

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	iouiku / uipios
Reading in original script:
Object:	BI·6 Cerrione (stela)
Position:	front
Orientation:	270°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	7–10 cm2.756 in <br />3.937 in <br />
Number of letters:	12
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Roman republican period [from object]
Date of inscription:	100–40 BC [from object]
Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Iouiku (son) of Uip(i)os'
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 43 f. no. 6

Images

Stela BI·6 Cerrione with inscription BI·6 from Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013

Commentary

First published in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011: 92.

Images in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011: 93, fig. 87 (photo = Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 44 [in colour]), Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 44 (drawing).

Inscribed in two dextroverse lines running downward; well legible.

Solinas (p. 44) proposes that the lines should be read in succession from left to right iouiku uipios (cf. at the same find place BI·1, BI·5, BI·8, s well as NO·21.1 and maybe GR·1), but analyses the latter as the individual name, the former as an appositive in -ū. We prefer to read the inscription as the ones from Cerrione cited above, with iouiku as the individual name and uipios as the patronym in -ii̯-: 'Iouiku (son) of Uip(i)os'.

The grammar and form of the inscription, with on-stem individual name in -ū and appositive in -ii̯-, are Celtic, as is the individual name i̯ou̯inkū lit. 'the young one'. The father's name is difficult to classify; Solinas (p. 44) compares the name of the freedman uipio in a Latin inscription from the Cerrione necropolis (no. 45 in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013), but the latter is an on-stem rather than an o-stem which must underlie uipios, and other options are feasible. See the word pages for details.

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 2011	Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, "Il messaggio epigrafico: Riconoscimento del sepolcro e strategia della memoria", in: 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, 89–106.
Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013	Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, Microstorie di romanizzazione. Le iscrizioni del sepolcreto rurale di Cerrione, Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2013.