TI·33

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Inscription
Proper name:	Inscription of Banco
Reading in transliteration:	]nialui : pala
Reading in original script:	[
Object:	TI·33 Bedigliora (stela)
Position:	front
Frame:	?  (left: round, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic Script"North Italic Script" is not in the list (Greek script, Etruscan script, Latin script, North Italic script, Camunic script, none, unknown) of allowed values for the "script" property.
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:	Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	-
Meaning:	"Grave(stone) for (the son of …)"
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 273 Solinas 1995: 2 Motta 2000: 7 Morandi 2004: 31
Sources:	Lejeune 1971: 82 Morandi 2004: 537 Motta 2000: 202 Solinas 1994: 320-321

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

Could be classified after De Marinis stele-typology as type B (although the "head" is lost, Motta 2000: 202)
Attached to the left side of the under stroke a semicircle (?) is graved (cf. Giussani 1914: 56, 59 fig. 4)

• 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 1994: 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.