TI·18.1
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| Reading in transliteration: | iakir |
| Reading in original script: |    
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| Object: | TI·18 Giubiasco (flagon) (Inscriptions: TI·18.1, TI·18.2) |
| Position: | right-hand side, handle |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 5 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | chased |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène B 1 [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 4th c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 266 bis Motta 2000: 29 Morandi 2004: 19 B |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 529 no. 19 B |
Images
 Inscriptions TI·18.1 and TI·18.2 from Morandi
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Commentary
First published in Jacobsthal & Langsdorff 1929: 58.
Images in Jacobsthal & Langsdorff 1929: Tav. 23 (photo), Crivelli 1977: 27, fig. 9 (drawing), De Marinis 2000: 393, fig. 30 (photo) and 395, fig. 32 (drawing = Pernet et al. 2006: pl. sub 32.10), Morandi 2004: 536, fig. 9.19 (drawing).
Inscribed on the right-hand side of the handle when looking at the flagon from the back, at about half height, 6 cm from the rim, running upward, the upper parts of the letters pointing toward the vessel. The reading iakir given by Jacobsthal & Langsdorff was provided by Marstrander and is accepted by Whatmough 1933: 629, no. 266 bis; Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 143; De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000 II: 462, no. 542; Morandi 2004. Crivelli 1977: 25 suggests alternative cakir because of the bend in initial iota. Motta 2000: 216, no. 29 (cf. Pernet et al. 2006: 229) mentions ivkir as a possibility, presumably with regard to the comparatively high dating of the object. The sequence may be anthroponymic (abbreviation?), but is ultimately obscure.
See also Markey & Mees 2004: 76, fig. 18.
Bibliography
| Crivelli 1977 | Aldo Crivelli, "La necropoli di Giubiasco", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como 159 (1977), 5–98. |
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| De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000 | Raffaele C. De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (eds), I leponti tra mito e realtà. Raccolta di saggi in occasione della mostra Locarno, Castello Visconteo - Casorella, 20 maggio - 3 dicembre 2000, Verbania: Armando Dadò Editore 2000. |
| De Marinis 2000 | Raffaele C. de Marinis, "Il vasellame bronzeo nell'area alpina della cultura di Golasecca", in: Raffaele C. De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (eds), I leponti tra mito e realtà. Raccolta di saggi in occasione della mostra Locarno, Castello Visconteo - Casorella, 20 maggio - 3 dicembre 2000, Verbania: Armando Dadò Editore 2000, I 341–406. |
