TI·35

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]osik[ / ]?uka[
Reading in original script:	][ ]?[
Object:	TI·35 Ponte Capriasca (stela)
Position:	front
Orientation:	270°
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: all, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène B, La Tène C
Date of inscription:	4th–mid-2nd c. BC
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 20 bis Motta 2000: 9 Morandi 2004: 33
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 539 no. 33

Images

Stela fragment TI·35 Ponte Capriasca (photograph by C. Reguzzi)

Commentary

First published in Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 139 f.

Image in Motta 2000: 204, fig. 8 (photo).

The fragment preserves parts of two lines, each written inside frame lines. According to Piana Agostinetti 2004: 156, the inscriptions ran from the bottom toward the top (cf. TI·36.1/TI·36.2); differently Morandi 2004, who assumes that they were horizontal (why?). Reading of the letters according to Tibiletti Bruno, who considers both lines to be complete on top – is the trace after kappa in line 1 the neck of the anthropomorphic frame? In that case, the stela could be classified as type C according to the typology of De Marinis & Motta 1991: 206 – thus Motta 2000: 204, although he, like Morandi 2004, considers both lines to be incomplete also on top (]osik[ / ]iuka[). Morandi observes that an additional vertical line disturbs alpha in line 2 (]osik?[ / ]?iukạị[), possibly iota to form a feminine dative ending.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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.