VB·23

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	kiketu / ṛẹtalos
Reading in original script:	[
Variant reading:	kiketị / retalos (Tibiletti Bruno)
Object:	VB·23 Stresa (stela)
Position:	unknown
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script
Number of letters:	13
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	unknown
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	end of 2nd / 1st century BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Syntactic analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 15 Solinas 1995: 121 Morandi 2004: 66
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 564 Solinas 1995: 372 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 167-168

Images

Inscription VB·23 kiketu / ṛẹtalos

Inscription VB·23 kiketu retalos

Commentary

• Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: pp. 257-260 (after photography reading kiketi is possible, though in the context of the patronymic kiketu is the preferable variant reading), pp. 264-265
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 167-168
• De Giuli 1978-9: p. 247
• Caramella & De Giuli 1993: p. 207
• Solinas 1995: p. 372, n. 121

Bibliography

Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Alberti Editore 1993.
De Giuli 1978-9	Alberto De Giuli, "Le stele funerarie di Brisino", Sibrium 14 (1978-9), 245-252.