TI·44

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ọni : klanalui : p̣ala
Reading in original script:	[
Object:	TI·44 Bioggio (stela)
Position:	front
Orientation:	270°
Frame:	?  (left: head, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	10 cm3.937 in <br />
Number of letters:	15
Number of words:	3
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	incomplete
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A, La Tène B, La Tène C
Date of inscription:	5th–mid-2rd c. BC
Type:	funerary
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'pala for °u son of Klanos'
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 301
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 718 no. 301

Images

Inscription TI·44 )ọni : klanalui : p̣ala

Commentary

First published in Solinas 2002: 488 f., no. 3.

Images in Solinas 2002: 488 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 720, fig. 39.301 (drawing) and 811, tav. XXXIV.301 (photo).

The fragment preserves the latter part of an inscription (length of the remains 81 cm) written running upward between frame lines (10 cm distance) which end in an only partly preserved stylised head; the bottom end of the frame is not preserved. The bars of nu are executed as a curve, cf. TI·29, TI·30, TI·32, TI·33, TI·36.1, TI·37, TI·39.

The inscription contains the standard text formula of Ticino gravestones with the name of the deceased in the dative (lost on-stem individual name in -oni plus patronym in -al-ūi̯) and pala; see the word pages for details.

Dating based on the shape of the anthropomorphic frame according to the typology of De Marinis & Motta 1991: 206 (type B or C).

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.