TI·26 Vira nel Gambarogno
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Proper name: | Stela of Vira Gambarogno |
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| Classification: | gravestone |
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| Material: | stone |
| Material Composition: | gneiss |
| Shape: | irregular |
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| Extension (h×w×d): | 105 cm41.338583 in × 43 cm16.929134 in × 5 cm1.968504 in |
| Condition: | damaged |
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| Archaeological Culture: | Golasecca III A |
| Date: | first half of 4th century BC |
| Date derived from: | palaeography |
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| Site: | Vira nel Gambarogno (Ticino, Switzerland) |
| Field Name: | Campaccio |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 8' 39" N, 8° 50' 35" ELatitude: 46.144047 Longitude: 8.842973 [from site] |
| Find Date: | 1917 |
| Find Circumstances: | unspecified |
| Current Location: | Museo Castello di Montebello (Bellinzona) |
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| Inscription: | TI·26 (teromui : kualui) |
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| Alternative Sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 267 Solinas 1994: 29 Motta 2000: 4 Morandi 2004: 25 |
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| Sources: | Motta 2000: 199 Morandi 2004: 533 Solinas 1995: 331-332 |
Images
 Stela TI·26 Vira nel Gambarogno (photograph by C. Reguzzi)
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Bibliography
| 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. |
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| Motta 2000 | Filippo Motta, "La documentazione epigrafica e linguistica", in: Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, Simonetta Biaggio Simona (Eds.), I Leponti tra mito e realtà, Locarno: Gruppo Archeologia Ticino 2000, 181–222. |
| Solinas 1994 | Patrizia Solinas, "Il Celtico in Italia", Studi Etruschi 60 (1994 [1995]), 311-408. |
| 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. |
