VA·6 Vergiate

From Lexicon Leponticum

Proper name:	Stela of Vergiate
Classification:	stela
Material:	stone
Material Composition:	mica schist
Shape:	irregular high-rectangular
Size:
Extension (h×w×d):	230 cm90.551181 in × 70 cm27.559055 in × 20 cm7.874016 in
Condition:	damaged
Archaeological Culture:	Golasecca II
Date:	end of 6th / beginning of 5th century BC
Date derived from:	palaeography
Site:	Vergiate (Varese, Lombardia, Italy)
Field Name:	Ronchi, next to the church San Gallo
Archaeological context:	at a "paving"
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 43' 37" N, 8° 42' 23" ELatitude: 45.726928 Longitude: 8.70648
Find Date:	1913
Find Circumstances:	by chance
Current Location:	Musei del Castello Sforzesco (Milano)
Inscription:	VA·6 (pelkui : pruiam : teu : karite : iṣ́ọs : kalite : palaṃ[)
Alternative Sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 300 Solinas 1994: 119 Motta 2000: 1 Morandi 2004: 106
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 594-596 & 593 (fig. 15.106) & 792 (pl. XV) Motta 2000: 196-197 Solinas 1995: 371

Images

Drawing of VA·6 Vergiate with inscription VA·6 pelkui : pruiam : teu : karite : iṣ́ọs : kalite : palaṃ

Stela VA·6 Vergiate with the inscription VA·6 pelkui : pruiam ...

Stela VA·6 Vergiate with inscription VA·6 pelkui : pruiam : ...

Commentary

The stela was found in 1913 a few metres south east of the litte church San Gallo, at the road from Vergiate to Cimbro. Today the area is covered by numerous villas, leaving only a zone close to the church (Piana Agostinetti 2004‎: 205-208). A good cast can be seen in the museum of the Società Gallaratese per gli Studi Patrii in Gallarate (Motta 2000: 196). Detailed description and discussion in Tibiletti Bruno 1969c (regarding the state of the object on p. 182 fn. 1-2, 186, 188 fn. 32).

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.
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.
Piana Agostinetti 2004	Paola Piana Agostinetti, Celti d'Italia. A cura di Paola Piana Agostinetti. Tomo I: Archeologia, lingua e scrittura dei Celti d'Italia [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 12.1], Roma: Spazio Tre 2004.
Solinas 1994	Patrizia Solinas, "Il Celtico in Italia", Studi Etruschi 60 (1994 [1995]), 311-408.
Tibiletti Bruno 1969c	Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Il testo di Vergiate", Archivio Glottologico Italiano 54 (1969), 182-191.
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.