VC·1 Vercelli

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Object
Classification:	boundary stone
Material:	stone
Material composition:	mica schist
Shape:	irregular longish
Size:
Extension (h×w×d):	150 cm59.055 in <br /> × 70 cm27.559 in <br /> × 20 cm7.874 in <br />
Condition:	damaged
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: 589-590 & 588 (fig. 14.100) & 791 (pl. XIV) Solinas 1995: 381-382

Images

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).

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, 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 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.

• Tibiletti Bruno 1977: 355–376
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 157 f.
• Motta 1992: 315–317
• Finem dare. Il confine, tra sacro, profano e immaginario. A margine della stele bilingue del Museo Leone di Vercelli, ed. G. Wataghin Cantino (2011).

Bibliography

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