TI·27 Mezzovico-Vira

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Object
Proper name: Stela of Mezzovico
Classification: stela
Archaeological Type: De Marinis B

Material: stone
Material composition: granite gneiss
Size:
Extension (h×w×d): 275 cm108.268 in <br /> × 28 cm11.024 in <br /> × 42 cm16.535 in <br />
Condition: unknown

Archaeological culture: Golasecca III A
Date: 5th / beginning of 4th century BC

Site: Mezzovico-Vira (Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name: guesthouse "La Palazzina"
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 5' 12.21" N, 8° 55' 10.93" E
Find date: March 1984
Find circumstances: construction work
Finder: Luigi Coldesina (reputed finder)
Current location: Museo Civico e Archeologico (Locarno)

Inscriptions:

Alternative sigla: Solinas 1995: 20
Motta 2000: 3
Morandi 2004: 26, 26 bis, 280

Sources: Morandi 2004: 533-534 & 707-708 & 784 (pl. VII.24)
Motta 2000: 198-199
Solinas 1995: 327-328

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Commentary

Normally positioned at the wall of the guesthouse "Le Palazzina" in Mezzovico but now (2004) taken to Locarno for restauration work.
Dating: Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1003-1005 dates this Stela due to the iconography to a late phase (degenerated representation of a human silouhette).

  • Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1003-1005, 1007, 1011-1015, 1018-1020 (detailed description, discussion and comparison with other Lepontic inscriptions)

Bibliography

De Marinis & Motta 1991 Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.
Donati 1985 Pierangelo Donati, "Mezzovico-Vira, distr. di Lugano, TI", Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte 68 (1985), 231.