BI·4 Cerrione

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Object
Classification:	stela
Material:	stone
Size:	height 165 cm, width 66 cm, depth 35 cm
Condition:	complete, damaged
Archaeological culture:	Roman republican period
Date:	100–40 BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Cerrione (Biella, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	Cerrione necropolis
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 27' 33.69" N, 8° 4' 31.50" E
Find date:	between 1994 and 2002
Find circumstances:	excavation
Current location:	Museo del Territorio Biellese (Biella)
Inventory no.:	86402
Inscription:	BI·4 (esonius:urenti/akitu:esonius/ueriounos)
Alternative sigla:	none
Sources:	Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 45–48

Images

Stela BI·4 Cerrione with inscription BI·4 from Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013

Commentary

Images in Brecciaroli Taborelli 2011: 502, tav. 121 (drawing = Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 46), Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 46 (photo).

Pyramidal schist stela, damaged on the upper edge. Found without immediate context in the north-western sector of the Cerrione necropolis, on the south-western edge of grave 173; dated to phase 1 (100–40 BC) based on the overall distribution of the graves and the dating of the other stelae with Lepontic inscriptions. See Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013: 25, 45–48.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Brecciaroli Taborelli 2011	Luisa Brecciaroli Taborelli (ed.), Oro, pane e scrittura. Memorie di una comunità "inter Vercellas et Eporediam" [= Studi e ricerche sulla Gallia Cisalpina 24], Roma: Edizioni Quasar 2011.
Cresci Marrone & Solinas 2013	Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Patrizia Solinas, Microstorie di romanizzazione. Le iscrizioni del sepolcreto rurale di Cerrione, Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari 2013.