TI·34 Capriasca

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Object
Classification:	stela
Material:	stone
Size:	length 100 cm, width 70 cm, thickness 13 cm
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:	5th to 4th century BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Capriasca (Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Tesserete
Archaeological context:	tomb
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 4' 2.23" N, 8° 57' 56.88" E
Find date:	1900
Find circumstances:	earthworks
Finder:	Pietro Barizzi
Current location:	unknown
Inventory no.:	237.1900.1
Inscriptions:	TI·34.1 (aui:pala:) TI·34.2 (otiui:pala) TI·34.3 (]rkomui:pal[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 268 Solinas 1995: 27 Motta 2000: 5 Morandi 2004: 32
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 538 no. 32

Commentary

Rough slab of grey mica schist found in 1900 by the worker Pietro Barizzi while digging up sand on the property of one Giuseppe Colombo, at a depth of 3.5 m. The slab covered a pit, probably a grave, devoid of furniture; an complete incineration grave with stone chamber and furniture was found a few metres from the one covered by the stone in the same year (Giussani 1902: 25 f.). The sizes vary slightly in literature (cf. Motta 2000: 200, Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1005 fn. 7). Tibiletti Bruno (1997: 1005-1006, fn. 8-9) dates the inscription TI·34.3 on the back side of this fragmented stela earlier due to palaeography and because the first part of the inscription lacks. After her TI·34.1 resp. TI·34.2 are complete and incised secondarly after the fragmentation of the stone (see also Tibiletti Bruno 1970, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 137-138, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 240 cf. though De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: 217). In all the three inscriptions on this stone the onomastic formula consists only of the personal name (cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1997: 1016, TI·29 and perhaps TI·32).

• pictures in Tibiletti Bruno 1997: fig. 3-4 (she refers to fig. 5-6, but the pictures are interchanged by mistake)
• Giussani 1902: 25-31
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 137-138
• Tibiletti Bruno 1989: 90
• Risch 1989

Formerly in the Museo Storico in Lugano, now lost.

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.