VB·26

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	tunal / koimila
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·26 Stresa (stela)
Position:	top, front
Orientation:	0°
Frame:	(left: none, middle: all, right: none)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
adapted to:	Latin script
Number of letters:	12
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	end of 2nd / 1st century BC [from object]
Type:	funerary
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 301 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 16 Solinas 1995: 125 Morandi 2004: 69
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 565–567 no. 69

Commentary

First published in Ferrero 1889: 262 (e).

Images in Ferrero 1889: 262 (drawing), Ponti 1896: 153, no. 186 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), Ferrero 1897: 57 (drawing from Fabretti's calque = Danielsson 1909: 28).

Inscribed between three horizontal lines, the uppermost ca. 25 cm from the top of the stela (Whatmough). Reading with Latin nu and (inverted) mu in Ferrero 1897: 57 f., no. 1; discussion of -al already there and in Danielsson 1909: 28 f. (koimi latunal(i), thus also Jacobsohn 1927: 30, no. 188, and Whatmough PID 107, no. 301, according to whom nu is , mu is ), Rhŷs 1913: 53 f., no. 3 (koimila tunal(a)), Terracini 1927: 146, Pisani 1964: 282 f., no. 119 E (koimila tunal), Tibiletti Bruno 1978c: 23 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 152, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 169 f., no. 16 (tunal koimila), Solinas 1995: 374, no. 125, Morandi 2004: 565–567, no. 69.

See also Krahe 1936: 247, Untermann 1960: 305.

Bibliography

Danielsson 1909	Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.
Ferrero 1889	Ermanno Ferrero, "Regione XI. (Transpadana)", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1889), 261–262.
Ferrero 1897	Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti per la provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56–60.