CO·48

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Inscription
Proper name: Inscription of Prestino
Reading in transliteration: uvamokozis : plialeθu : uvltiauiopos : ariuonepos : siteś : tetu
Reading in original script: U sT4 sE sT4 sseparator3 sŚ6 sE sT4 sI sS2 sseparator3 sS2 dO sP sE sN sO sU sI sR sA24 sseparator3 sS2 dO sP sO sI sU sA24 sI sT4 sL sV sU sseparator3 sU sΘ3 sE sL sA24 sI sL sP sseparator3 sS2 sI sZ5 sO sK4 sO sM sA24 sV sU s

Object: CO·48 Prestino (slab)
Position: front
Orientation:
Frame: feettop and bottomtop and bottomfeet  (left: feet, middle: top and bottom, right: feet)
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: North Italic Script"North Italic Script" is not in the list (Greek script, Etruscan script, Latin script, North Italic script, Camunic script, none, unknown) of allowed values for the "script" property.
Number of letters: 49
Number of words: 6
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: carved
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: unknown [from object]
Date of inscription: end of 6th / beginning of 5th century BC [from object]

Type: dedicatory
Language: Lepontic
Syntactic analysis: NPSUB NPOBdir NPOBindir VP
Meaning: "Uvamokozis Plialeθu dedicated the seats (?) to the Uvltiauioi and the Ariuones."

Alternative sigla: Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 23
Solinas 1995: 65
Motta 2000: 2
Morandi 2004: 180

Sources: Morandi 2004: 638-640 & 642 (fig. 22.180) & 801 (pl. XXIV.180)
Solinas 1995: 343-345
Lejeune 1971: 96-111
Markey & Mees 2003: 116-119 & 126-160 & 144-145

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Commentary

Alternate readings were due to "orthographical/etymological" concerns, and not to graphematic reasons. (Markey & Mees 2003: pp. 128-130, fn. 5, cp. Eska 1998c: p. 67, Schmidt 1986: p. 202, Tibiletti Bruno 1966b, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 141-142, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 177-181, Prosdocimi 1967: pp. 200-209, Prosdocimi 1986: pp. 233-234, 240-241)

Graphems of Prestino compared with other inscriptions: Markey & Mees 2003: pp. 130-137, cp. Lejeune 1974: p. 343, Prosdocimi 1967: pp. 201-205.

Syntax: Markey & Mees 2003: 137-145, Prosdocimi 1967: 205-209, Prosdocimi 1986: 236-237; Metric: Markey & Mees 2003: 157-160, Eska & Mercado 2005: 177 f.
Tibiletti Bruno 1966b sees a connection between the toponym Airuno/Eiruno and ariuonepos of the inscription (see: Olivieri 1931: p. 71 and Pellegrini 1981: p. 58)

Bibliography

Campanile 1968 Enrico Campanile, "Su Due Interpretazioni dell'Iscrizione di Prestino", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 8 (1968), 207-213.
Campanile 1981 Enrico Campanile (ed.), I Celti d'Italia, Pisa: Giardini 1981.
De Bernardo Stempel 2005 Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, "Indogermanisch und keltischen 'geben': kontinentalkelt. Gabiae, gabi/gabas, keltib. kabizeti, altir. ro-(n)-gab und Zugehöriges", Historische Sprachforschung 118 (2005), 185-200.
De Marinis & Motta 1991 Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.
Eska & Mercado 2005 Joseph Francis Eska, Angelo O. Mercado, "Observations on verbal art in ancient Vergiate", Historische Sprachforschung 118 (2005), 160-184.
Eska 1998c Josef Francis Eska, "PIE *p (doesn't become) Ø in proto Celtic", Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 58 (1998), 63-80.
Ferri 1967 Silvio Ferri, "Esigenze Archeologiche VIII", Studi Orientali e Classici 16 (1967), 431-432.