TI·25
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| Reading in transliteration: | anteśilu |
| Reading in original script: |        
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| 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 |
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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: | 'Anteśilu' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 6 Solinas 1995: 25 Motta 2000: 26 Morandi 2004: 23 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 531 f. no. 23 |
Images
 Drawing of inscription TI·25 from Morandi
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 Inscription TI·25 from Motta
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 Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25 from Solinas
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 Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25
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 Olla TI·25 Locarno with inscription TI·25
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 Inscription TI·25
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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: 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.
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. |
