NO·27
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Reading in transliteration: | komeuioṣ / kalatikn / os |
Reading in original script: | |
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Object: | NO·27 Dormelletto (stela) |
Position: | front, centre |
Orientation: | 0° |
Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
adapted to: | Latin script |
Letter height: | 8.5 cm3.346 in <br /> |
Number of letters: | 18 |
Number of words: | 2 |
Number of lines: | 3 |
Workmanship: | carved |
Condition: | complete |
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Archaeological culture: | La Tène C [from object] |
Date of inscription: | second half of 2nd century BC [from object] |
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Type: | unknown |
Language: | Celtic |
Meaning: | 'Komeuios son of Kalatos' |
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Alternative sigla: | none |
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Sources: | Gambari 2007: 256–258 |
Commentary
First published in Gambari 2007: 256–258.
Images in Spagnolo Garzoli 2009: 41, fig. 25 (photo = Solinas 2022: 857, fig. 1a [in greyscale]), Gambari 2011: 27, fig. 12 (photo).
Fairly well legible except for sigma in the first line, which had to be squeezed in; in the second line, the last two letters did not fit and were written below its end. The shape of mu is Latinised; otherwise, the letters have traditional North Italic shapes. Gambari 2007: 257 argues that sigma with rounded lines was imported from Transalpine Gaul.
The text is a two-part name with individual name and patronym in -ikn-, presumably the name of a deceased person or ancestor, unless the stone was a boundary marker as assumed by Gambari 2011: 27 f. (See the object page on the function of the structure in which the stela was found.)
Bibliography
Gambari 2007 | Filippo M. Gambari, "Dormelletto. I documenti epigrafici in celtico cisalpino", Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte 22 (2007), 256–259. |
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Gambari 2011 | Filippo Maria Gambari, "Le pietre dei signori del fiume: il cippo iscritto e le stele del primo periodo della cultura di Golasecca", in: Filippo Maria Gambari, Raffaella Cerri (eds), L'alba della città. Le prime necropoli del centro protourbano di Castelletto Ticino, Novara: 2011, 19–32. |