TI·33

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]nialui : pala
Reading in original script:	[
Object:	TI·33 Bedigliora (stela)
Position:	front
Orientation:	270°
Frame:	?  (left: round, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	13 cm5.118 in <br />
Number of letters:	10
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B, La Tène C [from object]
Date of inscription:	4th–mid-2nd c. BC [from object]
Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'pala for ... the son of °nios'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 273 Solinas 1995: 2 Motta 2000: 7 Morandi 2004: 31
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 537 no. 31

Images

Drawing of TI·33 Bedigliora with inscription TI·33 )nialui : pala

Stela fragment TI·33 Bedigliora (photograph by C. Reguzzi)

Fragment TI·33 Bedigliora with inscription TI·33

Commentary

First published in Giussani 1914: 56–60.

Images in Giussani 1914: 57, fig. 3 (photo) and 59, fig. 4 (drawing).

Inscribed in a single line within a frame running from bottom to top (length of remains 59 cm). Though the stela is broken on both sides, only the first part of the inscription is missing; the "neck" of the anthropomorphic frame can be seen on the left side after pala, which is thus the last word.

• Giussani 1914: pp. 56-60
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: p. 138
• Tibiletti Bruno 1989: p. 90
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 273 A
• Rhŷs 1914: p. 315, Tav. II
• De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: p. 206
• Solinas 1995: p. 320, n.2
• Motta 2000: p. 202, n.7, fig. 5

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.
Giussani 1914	Antonio Giussani, "Le Iscrizioni Nord-Etrusche di Vergiate e di Banco", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 67-69 (1914), 47-60.