TI·37 Viganello

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Object
Classification:	stela
Material:	stone
Material composition:	mica schist
Size:	length 105 cm, width 32 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B, La Tène C
Date:	4th–mid-2nd c. BC
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Viganello (fraction of: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland)
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 0' 57.02" N, 8° 58' 17.37" E
Find date:	1853
Current location:	unknown
Inventory no.:	250.1853.1
Inscription:	TI·37 (ṣụnaḷei:makọ[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 270 Solinas 1995: 28 Morandi 2004: 35
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 540 f. no. 35

Commentary

Fragment of a mica schist slab or stela, found in the oratory of San Siro, where it formed the threshold to the presbytery (Giussani 1902: 39 f.). Retrieved from the collapsed building in 1948, the fragment was brought to the Museo Storico in Lugano, where it suffered the same fate as the other inscribed stones which were erstwhile housed there – it is currently untraceable. Dating according to De Marinis & Motta 1991: 206, who tentatively classify the document as their type C (with stylised feet, one of which is in evidence in Giussani's drawing).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.