TI·34.2

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	otiui : pala
Reading in original script:
Object:	TI·34 Capriasca (stela) (Inscriptions: TI·34.1, TI·34.2, TI·34.3)
Position:	front
Orientation:	270°
Frame:	?  (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: straight)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	15 cm5.906 in <br />
Number of letters:	9
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete, damaged
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 Otios'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 268 b Solinas 1995: 27 Ab Motta 2000: 5 A2 Morandi 2004: 32 Ab
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 538 no. 32 Ab

Images

Inscriptions TI·34.3 (above), TI·34.1 (centre) and TI·34.2 (below) from Giussani

Inscriptions TI·34.1 (above) and TI·34.2 (below) from Morandi

Commentary

Images in Giussani 1902: 26, fig. 1 (drawing),

• Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 50
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 137-138
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 268 a-b
• Crivelli 1943: p. 33, figg. 51-52 (photographies)
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 36, n.3
• Rhŷs 1914: p. 319, Tav. I
• De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: pp. 204, 206, 208 and 218 (LTB)
• Solinas 1995: p. 331, n.27
• Motta 2000: p. 200, n.5 (reading: aui)

Bibliography

Crivelli 1943	Aldo Crivelli, Atlante preistorico e storico della Svizzera Italiana. Vol. 1: Dalle origini alla civiltà romana, Bellinzona: Istituto Editoriale Ticinese 1943.
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 1902	A[ntonio] Giussani, "L' iscrizione nord-etrusca di Tesserete e le altre iscrizioni pre-romane del nostro territorio", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia e Antica Diocesi di Como 46 (1902), 25–67.