VB·28

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	namu / esopnio
Reading in original script:

Object:	VB·28 Stresa (stela)
Position:	front, upper area"upper area" is not in the list (front, back, left-hand side, right-hand side, centre, top, bottom, neck, shoulder, foot, ...) of allowed values for the "position" property.
Orientation:	0°
Frame:	(left: none, middle: all, right: none)
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	unknown
Number of letters:	11
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	complete

Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	end of 2^nd / 1^st century BC [from object]

Type:	prob. funerary
Language:	unknown
Syntactic analysis:	-
Meaning:	"Namu son of Esopnos"

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 303 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 18 Solinas 1995: 127 Morandi 2004: 71

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 567-568 Solinas 1995: 374-375 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 171-172

Images

Gravestone VB·28 Stresa with the inscription VB·28 namu / esopnio

De Vit 1889: pp. 261-262
Ferrero 1897: pp. 58-9
Rhŷs 1913: p. 72, n.7, 1
Lejeune 1971: p. 72, note 249
Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 153-154
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 171-172, n.18
Solinas 1995: p. 374, n. 127, Tav. LXVIIIa
Eska 1995: 43 α (in the Appendix he discusses the alternative interpretation of De Hoz 1990: pp. 323-324)

De Hoz 1990	Javier de Hoz, "El genitivo celtico de los temas en -o-", in: Francisco Villar (ed.), Studia indogermanica et palaeohispanica in honorem Antonio Tovar et Luis Michelena, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1990, 315–329.
De Vit 1889	Vincenzo De Vit, "Regione XI. (Transpadana)", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità a cura della Accademia dei Lincei (1889), 261-262.
Eska 1995	Joseph F. Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (eds), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33–46.
Ferrero 1897	Ermanno Ferrero, "Iscrizioni di Chignolo Verbano", Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti della provincia di Torino 7 (1897), 56-60.