TI·23
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| Reading in transliteration: | setupokios |
| Reading in original script: |        
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| Object: | TI·23 Locarno (pot) |
| Position: | shoulder, outside |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 1–2 cm0.394 in <br />0.787 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 10 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 2nd–1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Setupokios' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 5 Solinas 1995: 24 Motta 2000: 25 Morandi 2004: 24 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 532 no. 24 |
Images
 Drawing of inscription TI·23 from Morandi
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 Inscription TI·23 from Motta
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 Olla TI·23 Locarno with inscription TI·23
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 Inscription TI·23 Locarno
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Commentary
First published in Crivelli 1939: 199. Examined for LexLep on 17th October 2023.
Images in Crivelli 1939: 199, fig. 15 (drawing = Giussani 1940: 5), Tibiletti Bruno 1965c: 85 (photo and drawing), Stöckli 1975: 177, Taf. 39 (drawing), Solinas 1995: tav. LXII d and LXIV a, Morandi 1999: 166 (drawing) and 192, pl. V.1 (photo = Motta 2000: 214, fig. 22a = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VII.24), Motta 2000: 214, fig. 22b (photo = Morandi 2004: 784, tav. VII.24).
Inscribed on the shoulder of the olla along the neck (length 7 cm); well legible. The letters are preserved on three separate fragments; only final sigma is damaged in the lower area, but a small trace indicates that it is like initial sigma rather than 
(cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1965c: 86).
setupokios is a dithematic masculine personal name in the nominative which is also attested on the Briona stela and abbreviated in MI·6; see the word page for details. Since the grave in which the inscription was found is that of a woman, the inscription is more likely to be that of a previous owner of the vessel than to have a connection with the burial, although the similarity in application with TI·25 from the same necropolis is notable.
See also Giussani 1940: 5 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1965b: 565, n. 25, Morandi 1999: 166 f., no. 9.
Bibliography
| Crivelli 1939 | Aldo Crivelli, "La necropoli preromana di Solduno", Rivista Storica Ticinese 2/3 (1939), 193–200. |
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| Giussani 1940 | Antonio Giussani, "Epigrafi nord-etrusche e romane del nostro territorio", Rivista archeologica della provincia e antica diocesi di Como 123–124 (1940), 5–20. |
