CO·48

Inscription
Proper name:	Inscription of Prestino
Reading in transliteration:	uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu
Reading in original script:

Object:	CO·48 Prestino (slab)
Position:	front
Orientation:	0°
Frame:	(left: feet, middle: top and bottom, right: feet)
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.
Number of letters:	49
Number of words:	6
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete

Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	end of 6^th / beginning of 5^th century BC [from object]

Type:	dedicatory
Language:	Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	NP_SUB NP_OBdir NP_OBindir VP
Meaning:	"Uvamokozis Plialeθu dedicated the seats (?) to the Uvltiauioi and the Ariuones."

Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 23 Solinas 1995: 65 Motta 2000: 2 Morandi 2004: 180

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 638-640 & 642 (fig. 22.180) & 801 (pl. XXIV.180) Solinas 1995: 343-345 Lejeune 1971: 96-111 Markey & Mees 2003: 116-119 & 126-160 & 144-145

Images

Inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu	Slab CO·48 Prestino containing the inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu	Inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu : ...	Detail of CO·48 Prestino with right side of inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu ...	Detail of CO·48 Prestino with left side of inscription CO·48 ... siteś : tetu
Photo of CO·48 Prestino with inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu	Detail of CO·48 Prestino with inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu : uv(...)	Detail of CO·48 Prestino with inscription CO·48 (...)zis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariu(...)	Detail of CO·48 Prestino with inscription CO·48 (...)os : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu	Inscription CO·48 uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu
Detail of CO·48 Prestino with part of inscription CO·48 (...)pos : ariuo(...)	Detail of CO·48 Prestino with part of inscription CO·48 (...)onepos : site(...)

Alternate readings were due to "orthographical/etymological" concerns, and not to graphematic reasons. (Markey & Mees 2003: pp. 128-130, fn. 5, cp. Eska 1998c: p. 67, Schmidt 1986: p. 202, Tibiletti Bruno 1966b, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 141-142, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 177-181, Prosdocimi 1967: pp. 200-209, Prosdocimi 1986: pp. 233-234, 240-241)

Graphems of Prestino compared with other inscriptions: Markey & Mees 2003: pp. 130-137, cp. Lejeune 1974: p. 343, Prosdocimi 1967: pp. 201-205.

Syntax: Markey & Mees 2003: 137-145, Prosdocimi 1967: 205-209, Prosdocimi 1986: 236-237; Metric: Markey & Mees 2003: 157-160, Eska & Mercado 2005: 177 f.
Tibiletti Bruno 1966b sees a connection between the toponym Airuno/Eiruno and ariuonepos of the inscription (see: Olivieri 1931: p. 71 and Pellegrini 1981: p. 58)

Tibiletti Bruno 1966b: pp. 276-319
Tibiletti Bruno 1968: pp. 385-395
Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: pp. 350-354
Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: pp. 232-234, nr. 77
Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 141-142
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 157-207, n. 23
Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 87-105 (iconography, palaeography and confr. with other stone inscriptions)
Prosdocimi 1967: pp. 199-222
Pellegrini 1969: ?
Lejeune 1971: pp. 96-111, Pl. XII (cf. Prosdocimi 1986: 229 Celtic grammatical elements of the Prestino inscription after Lejeune)
Ferri 1967
Campanile 1968: pp. 207-213 (critical commentary on Tibiletti Bruno 1966b and Prosdocimi 1967)
Campanile 1981: p. 178
Morandi 1982: pp. 188-189, n. 69, Tav. XLI, 1
Motta 1983
Pellegrini 1983: p. 36 fn. 21, pp. 37-38
Prosdocimi 1986: pp. 225-250 (commentary on Tibiletti Bruno 1966b, Prosdocimi 1967, Campanile 1968, Lejeune 1971, Motta 1983 and a new commentary on the Prestino inscription on pp. 232-250)
Prosdocimi 1987: 567–574
De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: p. 19, fn. 2
Motta 1992: 313-314
Motta 2000: p. 197, n. 2
Lambert 1994: p. 21
Meid 1996: p. 260
Meid 1999: pp. 16-17
Eska 1998c: pp. 66-68
De Bernardo Stempel 2005: pp. 189-190
Mees 2008 (metric)

Campanile 1968	Enrico Campanile, "Su Due Interpretazioni dell'Iscrizione di Prestino", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 8 (1968), 207-213.
Campanile 1981	Enrico Campanile (ed.), I Celti d'Italia, Pisa: Giardini 1981.
De Bernardo Stempel 2005	Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, "Indogermanisch und keltischen 'geben': kontinentalkelt. Gabiae, gabi/gabas, keltib. kabizeti, altir. ro-(n)-gab und Zugehöriges", Historische Sprachforschung 118 (2005), 185-200.
De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.
Eska & Mercado 2005	Joseph Francis Eska, Angelo O. Mercado, "Observations on verbal art in ancient Vergiate", Historische Sprachforschung 118 (2005), 160-184.
Eska 1998c	Josef Francis Eska, "PIE p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft* 58 (1998), 63-80.
Ferri 1967	Silvio Ferri, "Esigenze Archeologiche VIII", Studi Orientali e Classici 16 (1967), 431-432.