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
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 1995: 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 1995: 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.