VB·30
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| Reading in transliteration: | surica / ciponis / f |
| Reading in original script: |          
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| Variant reading: | surica / cipośis / f
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| Object: | VB·30 Stresa (stela) |
| Position: | top, front |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 5.5–8 cm2.165 in <br />3.15 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 14 |
| 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: | 'Surica daughter of Cipo' (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): note xvii (a) Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 18b Morandi 2004: 73 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 569 no. 73 |
Images
 Stela VB·30 Stresa with inscription VB·30
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 Inscription VB·30
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Commentary
First published in Ferrero 1889: 261 (b). Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.
Images in Ferrero 1889: 261 (drawing), Ponti 1896: 155, no. 192 (drawing from Fabretti's calque), Ferrero 1897: 59 (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 30 cm, line 2 34 cm); well legible despite surface damage. The script is Latin, some letters are executed with serifs. The reading of the fifth letter in line 2 as a xenograph san goes back to De-Vit/Ferrero and is accepted by most scholars, see Ponti 1896: 155–157, Ferrero 1897: 59, no. 4, Pauli 1891: 158, Danielsson 1909: 27, n. 2, Rhŷs 1913: 55 f., Whatmough PID 108, note xvii (a), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 154, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 173, no. 18b, Morandi 2004: 569, no. 73. Cf., however, Schürr 2007 on san in the Voltino inscription saśadis, who (p. 340 f., 343) points out that the letter in the present inscription could be a corrected nu and the name an on-stem genitive ciponis (as in VB·21 moconis, VB·24 diuconis, VB·25 artonis). Note the tendency toward inverted/retrograde nu in the alphabetically Lepontic Stresa inscriptions (VB·22, VB·26, VB·27), which may have caused confusion. 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; neither name is certainly etymologically Celtic (see the word pages).
See the object page on the dating.
See also Untermann 1959: 94, Tibiletti Bruno 1990: 65, 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. |
