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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bioggio Lepontische Stelen - Sculptured Stone in Switzerland in Tessin

Submitted by Megalithic89 on Tuesday, 30 August 2022  Page Views: 365

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Bioggio Lepontische Stelen
Country: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 1.6 km away from the location you searched for.

Canton: Tessin Type: Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Lugano  Nearest Village: Bioggio
Latitude: 46.013820N  Longitude: 8.905780E
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Bioggio Lepontische Stelen
Bioggio Lepontische Stelen submitted by Megalithic89 : Site in Tessin Switzerland Stele with Lepontic inscription. It can be seen in the Area archeologica di San Maurizio. Photo taken August 2022. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Sculptured Stone in Tessin

The oldest archaeological evidence found in Bioggio, are three epigraphic stele found not in situ during the archaeological excavations of the second half of the nineties of the 20th century. The three tombstones are engraved – within schematized anthropomorphic figures – of short inscriptions in the northern Etruscan (=Lepontic) alphabet dating back to the 4th to 3rd century BC, with the name of the deceased.

The location of the Iron Age necropolis, which was the original context to which the three stelae belonged, is unknown.

Two of the stelae can be seen in the Municipal House of Bioggio and the Area archeologica di San Maurizio, Via San Maurizio, 6934 Bioggio. The third stele is safely kept in the depot of Ufficio dei Beni Culturali, 6501 Bellinzona.

References:
a) Patrizia Cavadini-Bielander, Rossana Cardani Vergani, Giovanni Maria Staffieri: Bioggio. Berna 2008, p. 10 (in Italian).
b) Morinini Moira, Bolletino dell´Associazione archeologica ticinese, 2003, p. 17 and p. 20 (in Italian).
c) Swiss Stone Monuments Inventory, www.ssdi.ch, Objects No. 6934.01, 6934.02 and 6934.03
Link to SSDI Object No. 6934.01
Link to SSDI Object No. 6934.02
Link to SSDI Object No. 6934.03
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Bioggio Lepontische Stelen
Bioggio Lepontische Stelen submitted by Megalithic89 : Stele with almost illegible Lepontic inscription. It can be seen in the Municipal House of Bioggio. Photo taken August 2022. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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