TI·25

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	anteśilu
Reading in original script:
Object:	TI·25 Locarno (pot)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	1.1–1.5 cm0.433 in <br />0.591 in <br />
Number of letters:	8
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete, damaged
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Anteśilu'
Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 6 Solinas 1995: 25 Motta 2000: 26 Morandi 2004: 23
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 531 f. no. 23

Images

Drawing of inscription TI·25 from Morandi	Inscription TI·25 from Motta	Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25 from Solinas	Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25	Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25
Inscription TI·25

Commentary

First published in Crivelli 1939: 199. Examined for LexLep on 17^th October 2023.

Images in Crivelli 1939: 199, fig. 15 (drawing = Giussani 1940: 7), Tibiletti Bruno 1965d: 91 (photo and drawing), Stöckli 1975: 176, Taf. 38 (drawing), Solinas 1995: tav. LXVa and b, Morandi 1999: 167 (drawing) and 192, p. V.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VI.23), Motta 2000: 215, fig. 23 (photo = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VI.23).

Inscribed on the shoulder of the olla (length 7.3 cm); well legible. The letters are preserved on three separate fragments, but only epsilon and san are slightly damaged.

anteśilu is a masculine personal name in the nominative (possibly that of the deceased, but cf. TI·23); see the word page for details.

See also Giussani 1940: 6 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1965d, Morandi 1999: 167, no. 10.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Crivelli 1939	Aldo Crivelli, "La necropoli preromana di Solduno", Rivista Storica Ticinese 2/3 (1939), 193–200.