VB·22

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	aśkonetio / pianu
Reading in original script:

Object:	VB·22 Stresa (stela)
Position:	front
Orientation:	0°
Frame:	(left: straight, middle: all, right: straight)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	14
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	1^st c. BC [from object]

Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Adgonnetio the Pianan' (?)

Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 14 Solinas 1995: 120 Morandi 2004: 65

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 563 f. no. 65

Images

Inscription VB·22 from De Giuli 1979

Stela VB·22 Stresa with inscription VB·22 from De Giuli 1979

Inscription VB·22 from Tibiletti Bruno 1979

PN in -u and patronymic in -io with inversion of the onomastic formula? Cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: pp. 254-255, namu esopnio

Tibiletti Bruno 1978c
Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: pp. 253-254 (comparison of the San with other inscriptions, late typology after Tibiletti Bruno)and pp. 260, 264-265
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: p. 168, n.15 a
Markey & Mees 2003: p. 139
Eska 1995: 43 β (in the appendix he discusses the alternative interpretation of De Hoz 1990: pp. 323-324)
De Giuli 1978-9: p. 248
Caramella & De Giuli 1993: p. 207 ff.

De Giuli 1979	Alberto De Giuli, "Le stele funerarie di Brisino", Sibrium 14 (1978–1979), 245–252.
De Hoz 1990	Javier de Hoz, "El genitivo celtico de los temas en -o-", in: Francisco Villar (ed.), Studia indogermanica et palaeohispanica in honorem Antonio Tovar et Luis Michelena, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1990, 315–329.
Eska 1995	Joseph F. Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (eds), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33–46.