VB·30

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: surica / cipośis / f
Reading in original script: SVRICA
CIPOŚ dIS
F
Variant reading: ciponis

Object: VB·30 Stresa (stela)
Position: top, front
Orientation:
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: Latin script
adapted to: North Italic script
Number of letters: 14
Number of words: 3
Number of lines: 3
Workmanship: carved
Condition: unknown

Archaeological culture: unknown [from object]
Date of inscription: first half of 1st century BC [from object]

Type: funerary
Language: Latin
Meaning: 'Surica daughter of Cipo' (?)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): note xvii (a)
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 18b
Morandi 2004: 73

Sources: Morandi 2004: 569 no. 73

Commentary

The 5th sign of the second word looks like a Lepontic San. It could also be read as N (correction, ligature?), cp. saśadis on BS·3.1 (Schürr 2007: pp. 340-341, 343, cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1990: p. 65)

Bibliography

Danielsson 1909 Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.
Ferrero 1889 Ermanno Ferrero, "Regione XI. (Transpadana)", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1889), 261–262.
Ferrero 1897 Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60.