MI·10.2
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| Reading in transliteration: | miliarios |
| Reading in original script: |       
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| Object: | MI·10 Milano (slab) (Inscriptions: MI·10.1, MI·10.2, MI·10.3, MI·10.4, MI·10.5, MI·10.6, MI·10.7, MI·10.8) |
| Position: | centre |
| Orientation: | 180° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| adapted to: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 2.7–5.4 cm1.063 in <br />2.126 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 9 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | carved |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | unknown [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'milestone' (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Solinas 1995: 104 b Morandi 2004: 140 b |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 615–617 no. 140 b |
Images
 Composite image of MI·10 Milano with highlighted letters according to Zavaroni
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 Composite image of MI·10 Milano and its eight inscriptions
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 Slab MI·10 Milano with eight inscriptions from Zavaroni et al.
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 Inscriptions MI·10.2 and MI·10.5 on a cast of the slab
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 Inscriptions on MI·10 Milano from Morandi
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 Slab MI·10 Milano with eight inscriptions from Morandi
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 Detail of MI·10 Milano with inscriptions MI·10.1, MI·10.2, MI·10.3, MI·10.4, MI·10.5, MI·10.6 and part of MI·10.7 from Morandi
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 Inscriptions on MI·10 Milano from Tibiletti Bruno (mirrored)
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Commentary
First published in Tibiletti Bruno 1986. Examined for LexLep (on the original and on the cast) on 26th April 2022.
Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1986: 100, fig. 1 (photo of a cast) and fig. 2 (drawing of the inscription as on the cast, hence retrograde = Solinas 1995: 365; mirrored in LexLep for easier comparison with the other images), Morandi 2004: 621, fig. 19.140a (drawing) and tav. XXI.140 a, c (photos), Zavaroni et al. 2014: 281, fig. 2 (drawing) and 290, fig. 4 (photo of section). Our photo is of the inscription on the cast kept by the Soprintendenza Milano.
Inscribed upside-down lengthwise on what is now the right side of the slab (length 16.2 cm). The alphabet is the Lepontic one, apart from Latinoid mu (cf. MI·10.1). The word miliarios is best interpreted as a Celticised form of the Latin miliarium 'milestone' (see the word page). The inscription would thus seem to be connected with MI·10.1, which gives a distance to/from Milano (thus Tibiletti Bruno); however, the two inscription were clearly applied by different hands, MI·10.2 being written inverted in relation to MI·10.1, with much larger letters and in a different alphabet variant (lambda). The only indication that one refers to the other lies in how the two initial mus are placed back to back. It is unclear which of the two inscriptions was applied first. See further on MI·10.1 for considerations about the identification of the slab as a milestone.
