VB·28
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| Reading in transliteration: | namu / esopnio |
| Reading in original script: |         
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| Object: | VB·28 Stresa (stela) |
| Position: | top, front |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Frame: |  (left: none, middle: all, right: none)
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| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| adapted to: | Latin script |
| Number of letters: | 11 |
| Number of words: | 2 |
| Number of lines: | 2 |
| Workmanship: | carved |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | end of 2nd / 1st century BC [from object] |
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| Type: | funerary |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Namu the Esopnian' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 303 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 18 Solinas 1995: 127 Morandi 2004: 71 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 567 f. no. 71 |
Images
 Stela VB·28 Stresa with inscription VB·28 from Solinas 1995
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Commentary
First published in Ferrero 1889: 262 (d).
Images in Ferrero 1889: 262 (drawing), Ponti 1896: 154, no. 188 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), Ferrero 1897: 58 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), Solinas 1995: tav. 68a (photo).
Inscribed between three horizontal lines, featuring epsilon with almost straight lines, Latin nu and, nota bene, mu with quite straight hastae and middle tip not reaching the bottom. See Ponti 1896: 154 f., Ferrero 1897: 58 f., no. 2, Danielsson 1909: 28, n. 1, Rhŷs 1913: 50 f., no. 1, Jacobsohn 1927: 30, no. 189, Whatmough PID 108, no. 303, Pisani 1964: 282 f., no. 119 C, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 153, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 171 f., no. 18, De Hoz 1990: 323 f. (namu as patronym, cf. VB·22; critical Eska 1995: 43), Solinas 1995: 374 f., no. 127, Morandi 2004: 567 f., no. 71.
See also Untermann 1960: 280, 306.
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. |
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| 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. |
| 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 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. |
