TI·26 Vira Gambarogno

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Object
Classification: stela

Material: stone
Size: height 105 cm, width 43 cm, depth 5 cm
Condition: broken, incomplete

Archaeological culture: Golasecca III A
Date: 5th–early 4th c. BC
Date derived from: typology

Site: Vira Gambarogno (Ticino, Switzerland)
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 7' 25.68" N, 8° 50' 20.87" E
Find date: 1917
Find circumstances: building work
Current location: Museo Castello di Montebello (Bellinzona)
Inventory no.: 252.1945.532

Inscription: TI·26 (teromui:kualui)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 267
Solinas 1995: 29
Motta 2000: 4
Morandi 2004: 25

Sources: Morandi 2004: 533 no. 25

Images

Commentary

Images in Giussani 1919: 16, fig. 1 (photo), Stifter 2020: ? (photo).

Irregular stela of beola gneiss found during the building of the road to Indemini in mid-March 1917, when a moraine was cleared near the locality Campaccio, at a depth of ca. 1.5 m (Giussani 1919: 15 f.). Dating based on De Marinis & Motta 1991: 206, who tentatively ascribe the stela to their type B (rectangular stela with anthropomorphic frame); Morandi 2004 gives the first half of the 4th c. BC.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Giussani 1919 Antonio Giussani, "L'iscrizione nord-etrusca di Vira-Gambarogno", Rivista archeologica della provincia e antica diocesi di Como 76–78 (1917–1918 [1919]), 15–21.