TI·34 Capriasca

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Object
Classification:	stela
Material:	stone
Size:	length 100 cm, width 70 cm, thickness 13 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B, La Tène C
Date:	4th–mid-2nd c. BC (?)
Date derived from:	typology
Site:	Capriasca (Ticino, Switzerland)
Field name:	Tesserete
Coordinates (approx.):	46° 4' 2.23" N, 8° 57' 56.88" E
Find date:	1900
Find circumstances:	earthworks
Finder:	Pietro Barizzi
Current location:	unknown
Inventory no.:	237.1900.1
Inscriptions:	TI·34.1 (aui:pala:) TI·34.2 (otiui:pala) TI·34.3 (]rkomui:pal[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 268 Solinas 1995: 27 Motta 2000: 5 Morandi 2004: 32
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 538 no. 32

Commentary

Images in Rhŷs 1914: tav. I (photos), Crivelli 1943: 33, fig. 51 and 52 (photos = Tibiletti Bruno 1997: fig. 3 and 4), De Marinis & Motta 1991: 208, fig. 4 (drawings).

Rough slab of grey mica schist found in 1900 by the worker Pietro Barizzi while digging up sand on the property of one Giuseppe Colombo, at a depth of 3.5 m. The slab covered a pit, probably a grave, devoid of furniture; an complete incineration grave with stone chamber and furniture, datable to G III A according to De Marinis & Motta 1991: 204, was found a few metres from the one covered by the stone in the same year (Giussani 1902: 25 f.). The stela is the only inscribed stone document from the Valle Capriasca. Its dating depends on that of TI·34.3; see the inscription pages for palaeographical and typological datings of the inscriptions and their frames.

Formerly in the Museo Storico in Lugano, currently untraceable.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Crivelli 1943	Aldo Crivelli, Atlante preistorico e storico della Svizzera Italiana. Vol. 1: Dalle origini alla civiltà romana, Bellinzona: Istituto Editoriale Ticinese 1943.
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.