VB·24 Stresa

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Object
Classification: stela

Material: stone
Size: height 170 cm, width 58 cm, thickness 6 cm
Condition: broken, repaired

Archaeological culture: unknown
Date: first half of 1st century BC
Date derived from: palaeography

Site: Stresa (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: Brisino
Archaeological context: medieval tomb
(Objects: VB·22 Stresa, VB·23 Stresa, VB·24 Stresa, VB·25 Stresa)
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 52' 21.06" N, 8° 33' 15.36" E
Find date: 1975
Current location: Museo Civico Antiquarium (Mergozzo)

Inscription: VB·24 (exobna/diuconis/f)

Alternative sigla: Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15 a
Morandi 2004: 67

Sources: Morandi 2004: 564 f. no. 67

Images

Commentary

Image in De Giuli 1979: 248, fig. 5 (photo).

Mica schist stela with rounded top, broken into two pieces in the upper part. Found together with VB·22 Stresa, VB·23 Stresa, VB·25 Stresa and an anepigraphic stela as covering of a mediaeval tomb. See also Caramella & De Giuli 1993: 207.

Bibliography

Caramella & De Giuli 1993 Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Alberti Editore 1993.
De Giuli 1979 Alberto De Giuli, "Le stele funerarie di Brisino", Sibrium 14 (1978–1979), 245–252.