TI·38 Pregassona

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Object
Classification: stela

Material: stone
Size: length 53 cm, width 30 cm, thickness 10.5 cm
Condition: fragmentary

Archaeological culture: unknown
Date: undateable

Site: Pregassona (fraction of: Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name: Orlino
Coordinates (approx.): 46° 1' 34.59" N, 8° 58' 35.77" E
Find date: 1924
Find circumstances: by chance
Current location: Ufficio Cantonale dei Beni Culturali (Bellinzona)
Inventory no.: 202.1924.1

Inscription: TI·38 (]??i:uosiu[)

Alternative sigla: Morandi 2004: 279

Sources: Morandi 2004: 706 f. no. 279

Images

Commentary

Image in Morandi 2004: 707 (photo).

Fragment of a mica schist stela found during earth works in the locality Orlino near the oratory Santi Pietro e Paolo at the head of one of four tombs (Tatarinoff 1924: 125). Thought lost, but relocated in the depot of the Ufficio cantonale in the early 2000s (Morandi 2004: 706).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Dell'Era 2020 Romeo Dell'Era, "uisou o uosiu[i]? Cambiando senso, il senso cambia. Nuova lettura di un'iscrizione celtica da Pregassona (Lugano)", in: Michel Aberson, Francesca Dell'Oro, Michiel de Vaan, Antoine Viredaz (eds), [vøːrtər]. Mélanges de linguistique, de philologie et d'histoire ancienne offerts à Rudolf Wachter [= Cahiers de l'ILSL 60], Lausanne: 2020, 215–220.