TI·12

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	atilonei
Reading in original script:

Object:	TI·12 Giubiasco (bottle)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	1.7–2.4 cm0.669 in <br />0.945 in <br />
Number of letters:	8
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	1^st century BC [from object]

Type:	dedicatory
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'to/for Atilu'

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 263 Solinas 1995: 12 Motta 2000: 19 Morandi 2004: 13

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 526 f. no. 13

Images

Inscription TI·12 from Morandi 1999	Inscription TI·12 from Morandi 2004	Inscription TI·12 from Motta	Detail of bottle TI·12 Giubiasco with inscription TI·12 from Solinas	Bottle TI·12 Giubiasco with inscription TI·12
Bottle TI·12 Giubiasco with inscription TI·12	Inscription TI·12

First published in Herbig 1906: 189, no. 3. Examined for LexLep on 20^th July 2021.

Images in Herbig 1906: 189, no. 3 (drawing), Rhŷs 1913: tav. III (photo), Crivelli 1973b: tav. 8.4 (drawing), Solinas 1995: tav. LXIIb (photo), Motta 2000: 211, fig. 16b (photo), Morandi 1999: 163, no. 6 (drawing), Morandi 2004: tav. VI.13 (photo), Pernet et al. 2006: 233, fig. 6.39 = Tori et al. 2010: pl. sub 143.8? (drawing).

Inscribed on the shoulder of the bottle (length 4.6 cm). The letters are well legible, the reading is unambiguous; see Rhŷs 1913: 25, no. 3; Whatmough 1933: 79, no. 263; Crivelli 1943: 53; Lejeune 1971: 63; Tibiletti Bruno 1975b: 54; Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 143; Solinas 1995: 325, no. 12; Morandi 1999: 163, no. 6; Motta 2000: 210 f., no. 19; De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000: 461, no. 529; Morandi 2004; Pernet et al. 2006: 229, tab. 6.2.

The form is a Celtic personal name in the dative; see the word page for details.

Crivelli 1943	Aldo Crivelli, Atlante preistorico e storico della Svizzera Italiana. Vol. 1: Dalle origini alla civiltà romana, Bellinzona: Istituto Editoriale Ticinese 1943.
Crivelli 1973b	Aldo Crivelli, "Cronologia protostorica della Valpadana dal IV al I sec. a.C.", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como 152–155 (1970–1973), 427–474.
De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (eds), I leponti tra mito e realtà. Raccolta di saggi in occasione della mostra Locarno, Castello Visconteo - Casorella, 20 maggio - 3 dicembre 2000, Verbania: Armando Dadò Editore 2000.