BG·41.2

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: timirios
Reading in original script: S2 sO2 sI sR sI sM4 sI sT s

Object: BG·41 Carona (rock)
(Inscriptions: BG·41.1, BG·41.2, BG·41.3, BG·41.4, BG·41.5, BG·41.6, BG·41.7, BG·41.8, BG·41.9, BG·41.10, BG·41.11, BG·41.12, BG·41.13, BG·41.14, BG·41.15, BG·41.16, BG·41.17, BG·41.18, BG·41.19, BG·41.20, BG·41.21, BG·41.22, BG·41.23, BG·41.24, BG·41.25, BG·41.26, BG·41.27, BG·41.28, BG·41.29, BG·41.30)
Position: unknown
Orientation:
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: North Italic Script"North Italic Script" is not in the list (Greek script, Etruscan script, Latin script, North Italic script, Camunic script, none, unknown) of allowed values for the "script" property.
Letter height: 1.2–4 cm0.472 in <br />1.575 in <br />
Number of letters: 8
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: carved
Condition: damaged

Archaeological culture: unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:

Type: unknown
Language: Celtic
Meaning: 'Timirios'

Alternative sigla: none

Sources: Casini & Fossati 2013: 380 (no. 2)

Commentary

First published in Casini et al. 2008: 80 (no. 2).

Images in Casini et al. 2008: 84, fig. 12 (photo) and 88, fig. 18 (drawing = Casini & Fossati 2013: 389, fig. 10).

Length 7.5 cm. Many letters damaged by abrasion, but unambiguous. The size of the letters diminishes by about half from right to left.

The inscription consists in a masculine individual name in the nominative.

Bibliography

Casini & Fossati 2013 Stefania Casini, Angelo Fossati, "Incisioni rupestri e iscrizioni preromane a Carona, Val Brembana (Bergamo)", Bulletin d'Études Prehistoriques et Archéologiques Alpines 24 (2013), 377–392.
Casini et al. 2008 Stefania Casini, Angelo Fossati, Filippo Motta, "Incisioni protostoriche e iscrizioni leponzie su roccia alle sorgenti del Brembo (Val Camisana di Carona, Bergamo). Note preliminari", Notizie Archeologice Bergomensi 16 (2008), 75–101.