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|type_object=boundary stone
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|material=stone
|material=stone
|composition=mica schist
|dimension=height 139 cm, width 70 cm, thickness 20 cm
|shape=irregular longish
|dimension_max=139 cm
|size_height=150 cm
|condition=damaged, incomplete
|size_width=70 cm
|size_depth=20 cm
|condition=damaged
|culture_archaeological=Late Republican
|culture_archaeological=Late Republican
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|solinas=141
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|morandi=100
|morandi=100
|source_detail=Morandi 2004: 589-590 & 588 (fig. 14.100) & 791 (pl. XIV), Solinas 1995: 381-382
|source_detail=Morandi 2004: 589 f. no. 100
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Images in {{bib|Lejeune 1988}}: 28, fig. 14 (photo) and 29, fig. 15 (drawing).
Images in {{bib|Lejeune 1988}}: 28, fig. 14 (photo) and 29, fig. 15 (drawing).


Found in May 1960 in a flooding zone on the left bank of the river Sesia during the mining of a bank of gravel, at a depth of 4 m. Due to the good condition of the stela and inscription and the weight of ca. half a tonne, {{bib|Lejeune 1988}}: 26 assumes that it was not, as the find place might suggest, transported any great distance by the river, but that it may have been buried in situ by a collapse of the river bank, possibly as recently as during the building of the nearby railway bridge. The campus referred to in the inscription would thus have been situated opposite the city of [[Vercelli|Vercellae]], which lies on the right bank of the river. Kept initially in private possession, the stela was given to the Museo Camillo Leone in 1967.   
Rectangular mica schist stela with slanting upper edge, found in May 1960 in a flooding zone on the left bank of the river Sesia during the mining of a bank of gravel, at a depth of 2.5 mm ({{bib|Baldacci 1978}}: 335) or 4 m {{bib|Lejeune 1988}}: X). Due to the good condition of the stela and inscription, its shape and the weight of ca. half a tonne, {{bib|Baldacci 1978}}: 355 f. and {{bib|Lejeune 1988}}: 26 agree that it was not, as the find place might suggest, transported any great distance by the river, but that it was buried more or less in situ by a collapse of the river bank, possibly as recently as during the building of the nearby railway bridge. Its original position and the campus referred to in the inscription would thus have been located opposite the city of [[Vercelli|Vercellae]], which lies on the right bank of the river. The lower part of the stone is missing, thought to have remained in the ground where the stone had been buried by {{bib|Baldacci 1978}}: 335. Kept initially in private possession, the stela was given to the Museo Camillo Leone in 1967.   


*{{bib|Tibiletti Bruno 1977}}: 355–376
*{{bib|Tibiletti Bruno 1977}}: 355–376

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Object
Classification: boundary stone
Material: stone
Size: height 139 cm, width 70 cm, thickness 20 cm
Condition: damaged, incomplete
Archaeological culture: Late Republican
Date: shortly before the middle of 1st century BC
Date derived from: historiography
Site: Vercelli (Vercelli, Piemonte, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 20' 6.43" N, 8° 26' 30.22" E
Find date: 1960
Current location: Museo "Camillo Leone" (Vercelli)
Inscriptions:
  • VC·1.1 (finis/campo·quem/dedit·acisius/argantocomateṛ/ecus·comunem/deis·et·hominib/us·ita·uti·lapidẹṣ/IIII·statuti·sunt)
  • VC·1.2 (akisios:arkatokok/materekos:toṣ́o/kote:aṭom:teuoχ/tom:koneu)
Alternative sigla: Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 34
Solinas 1995: 141
Morandi 2004: 100
Sources: Morandi 2004: 589 f. no. 100

Images

VC·1 Vercelli
Stela VC·1 Vercelli with inscriptions VC·1.1 and VC·1.2 from Morandi

Commentary

Images in Lejeune 1988: 28, fig. 14 (photo) and 29, fig. 15 (drawing).

Rectangular mica schist stela with slanting upper edge, found in May 1960 in a flooding zone on the left bank of the river Sesia during the mining of a bank of gravel, at a depth of 2.5 mm (Baldacci 1978: 335) or 4 m Lejeune 1988: X). Due to the good condition of the stela and inscription, its shape and the weight of ca. half a tonne, Baldacci 1978: 355 f. and Lejeune 1988: 26 agree that it was not, as the find place might suggest, transported any great distance by the river, but that it was buried more or less in situ by a collapse of the river bank, possibly as recently as during the building of the nearby railway bridge. Its original position and the campus referred to in the inscription would thus have been located opposite the city of Vercellae, which lies on the right bank of the river. The lower part of the stone is missing, thought to have remained in the ground where the stone had been buried by Baldacci 1978: 335. Kept initially in private possession, the stela was given to the Museo Camillo Leone in 1967.

Bibliography

Baldacci 1978 Paolo Baldacci, "Una bilingue latino-gallica di Vercelli", Atti dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 32 (1977 [1978]), 335–347.
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