SP·1 Zignago
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Proper name: | Stela of Zignago |
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| Classification: | stela |
| Archaeological Type: | statue stela |
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| Material: | stone |
| Material Composition: | sandstone |
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| Extension (h×w×d): | 108 cm42.519685 in × 37 cm14.566929 in × 24 cm9.448819 in |
| Condition: | damaged |
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| Archaeological Culture: | unknown |
| Date: | end of 6th century BC |
| Date derived from: | palaeography, typology |
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| Site: | Zignago (La Spezia, Liguria, Italy) |
| Field Name: | Villa di Novà |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 44° 16' 40" N, 9° 44' 48" ELatitude: 44.277693 Longitude: 9.746765 [from site] |
| Find Date: | 1827 |
| Find Circumstances: | unknown |
| Current Location: | Museo di Archeologia Ligure (Genova) |
| Inventory Nr.: | 329/1911 |
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| Inscription: | SP·1 (mezu nemuśus) |
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| Alternative Sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 338 Morandi 2004: 272 |
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| Sources: | Lejeune 1971: 136 & pl. XIV Morandi 2004: 696 & 809 (pl. XXXII.272) |
Images
 Stela SP·1 Zignago containing the inscription SP·1 mezu nemuśus
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 Stela SP·1 Zignago with the inscription SP·1 mezu nemuśus
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Commentary
There is a cast in the Museo Civico Archeologico "Ubaldo Formentini" (La Specia) (Lejeune 1971: 136).
- Ambrosi 1969: 35-36 (= Ambrosi 1972? See Maggiani & Prosdocimi 1976: 258)
- Tibiletti Bruno 1968: 265
- Maggiani & Prosdocimi 1976: 258
Bibliography
| Ambrosi 1972 | Augusto Cesare Ambrosi, Corpus delle Statue-Stele Lunigianesi, Bordighera: Istituto Internazionale Studi Liguri 1972. |
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| Lejeune 1971 | Michel Lejeune, Lepontica, Paris: Société d'Édition "Les Belles Lettres" 1971. (reprint of the article "Documents gaulois et para-gaulois de Cisalpine", Études Celtiques 12/2, 1970-1, pp. 357-500) |
| Maggiani & Prosdocimi 1976 | Adriano Maggiani, Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi, "Leponzio-Ligure", Studi Etruschi 44 (1976), 258-266. |
| Morandi 2004 | Alessandro Morandi, Celti d'Italia. A cura di Paola Piana Agostinetti. Tomo II: Epigrafia e lingua dei Celti d'Italia [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 12.2], Roma: Spazio Tre 2004. |
| Tibiletti Bruno 1968 | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Discussione su Prestino", Rendiconti dell'Istituto Lombardo di Scienza e Letteratura 102 (1968), 385-395. |
| Whatmough 1933 | Joshua Whatmough, The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy. Vol. 2, Part 3: The Raetic, Lepontic, Gallic, East-Italic, Messapic and Sicel inscriptions, Cambridge/Mass.: Harvard University Press 1933. |
