VB·29
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| Reading in transliteration: | ueca / atbiti / f |
| Reading in original script: |        
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| Object: | VB·29 Stresa (stela) |
| Position: | top, front |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 6–8 cm2.362 in <br />3.15 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 11 |
| Number of words: | 3 |
| Number of lines: | 3 |
| Workmanship: | carved |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | Augustan, Tiberian [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 1st c. BC–early 1st c. AD [from object] |
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| Type: | funerary |
| Language: | Latin |
| Meaning: | 'Veca daughter of Atbitus' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): note xvii (b) Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 18a Morandi 2004: 72 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 568 no. 72 |
Images
 Stela VB·29 Stresa with inscription VB·29
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 Inscription VB·29
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Commentary
First published in Ferrero 1889: 261 (a). Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.
Images in Ferrero 1889: 261 (drawing), Ponti 1896: 157, no. 198 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), Ferrero 1897: 60 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), Caramella & De Giuli 1993: 211 (drawing).
Inscribed in three centered lines in the upper area of the stela (length line 1 31.5 cm, line 2 29 cm; distance from top 11 cm). The script is Latin, the letters are executed with serifs. Mainardis 2009: 344 suggests that the for filius is written in a third line because it was felt to be a novel addition to the traditionally two-word name formulae.
The text is a Latinised name formula with individual name and filiation; both names are etymologically Celtic (see the word pages). See Ponti 1896: 157 f., Ferrero 1897: 60, no. 5, Danielsson 1909: 27, n. 2, Rhŷs 1913: 54 f., Whatmough PID 108, note xvii (b), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 154, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 172 f., no. 18a, Morandi 2004: 568, no. 72.
See the object page on the dating. Based on the absence of a frame and use of the Latin alphabet without Lepontic influence, VB·29 belongs to the latest layer of the attested Verbano gravestones.
See also Untermann 1959: 94, Untermann 1960: 280, 302, Caramella & De Giuli 1993: 211.
Bibliography
| Caramella & De Giuli 1993 | Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993. |
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| 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. |
