TI·36.3

From Lexicon Leponticum

Proper name:	Inscription of Davesco [3 of 3]
Reading in Transliteration:	]ni : ṃetạlui [
Reading in Original Script:	] [
Variant Reading:	]ne : ..., ]nei : ..., ... pal[a] (Risch, Motta), metapui ( read as p)
Object:	TI·36 Davesco (gravestone)Latitude: 46.03624 Longitude: 8.980198 (Inscriptions: TI·36.1, TI·36.2, TI·36.3)
Position:	back
Orientation:	90°
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of Writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic Script
Letter Height:	6 cm2.362205 in - 8 cm3.149606 in
Number of Letters:	9
Number of Words:	2
Number of Lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Archaeological Culture:	Golasecca III A
Date of Inscription:	5th century BC - beginning 4th century BC
Date derived from:	palaeography
Type:	funerary
Language:	Lepontic
Syntactic Analysis:	(...) NPOBdir (...)
Meaning:	"(Gravestone) for (...) son of Metelos"
Alternative Sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 269 Solinas 1994: 3 B Motta 2000: 6 A Morandi 2004: 34 Bc
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 539-540 & 785 (pl. VIII) Motta 2000: 200-202 Solinas 1994: 322

Images

Photograph of a drawing of TI·36.3 from the Rätisches Museum Chur

Drawing of TI·36.3 by Stefan Schumacher after the inspection by David Stifter

Notes about TI·36.3 by David Stifter

Commentary

This side of the gravestone is in a bad state, the inscription is hardly readable (probably also because it was bricked up until the 1980ies). The A is an older type as the ones of the inscriptions on the other side of the gravestone. (Motta 2000: 200-201)

• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: p. 135
• Fabretti 1867 (CII): 2
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 269
• Risch 1989: pp. 1581-1582
• De Marinis & Motta 1990-1: pp. 206, 208 and 218 (cronology is incorrect)
• Solinas 1994: p. 322, n.3, Tav. LX a-b
• Motta 2000: p. 200, n.6, fig. 4

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