BI·8

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: sipiu koil[ ]ios
Reading in original script: K5 dO6 dI dL d[   ]I dO6 dS6 d
S6 sI dP dI dU d

Object: BI·8 Cerrione (stela)
Position: front
Orientation: 270°
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height: 7–9 cm2.756 in <br />3.543 in <br />
Number of letters: 12–15
Number of words: 2
Number of lines: 2
Workmanship: carved
Condition: damaged

Archaeological culture: Roman republican period [from object]
Date of inscription: 100–60 BC [from object]

Type: funerary
Language: Celtic
Meaning: 'Sipiu (son) of Koil(?)(i)os'

Alternative sigla: none

Sources: Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 27–30 no. 1

Images

Commentary

First published in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011: 92.

Images in Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2011: 91, fig. 85 (photo = Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 28 [in colour]), Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 28 (drawing).

Inscribed in two dextroverse lines running downward in the upper part of the stela. The longer line 2 on the right is damaged by a chipped-off piece of surface layer; ca. three letters may be missing, of which the lower parts of two hastae are visible after lambda. Since the damage appears to be old and the last three letters I dO6 dS6 d are applied with a different engraving technique than the others, Solinas (p. 28) suggests that the last part of the line was originally inscribed across the area that sustained damage, then restored at a later date in the smooth area beneath. In this case, the sequence would be shorter, but a reconstruction as koilios is only possible if the second trace of a hasta in the drawing provided is an error.

We agree with Solinas (p. 29) that the lines are likely supposed to be read in succession from left to right: sipiu ?koilios, which preserves the expected order of the onomastic elements: 'Sipiu (son) of Koil(?)(i)os' – cf. at the same find place BI·1, BI·5, BI·6, as well as NO·21.1 and maybe GR·1.

The grammar and form of the inscription, with on-stem individual name and appositive in -ii̯-, are Celtic, as are with some probability the names themselves; see the word pages for detailed discussions.

The personal name sipiu appears as base of a patronym sipionios in BI·1 at the same find place.

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.