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<< Text Pages >> Dino Lepontische Stele - Sculptured Stone in Switzerland in Tessin

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Multi-periodSite Name: Dino Lepontische Stele
Country: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 10.265 km away from the location you searched for.

Canton: Tessin Type: Sculptured Stone
Nearest Town: Lugano  Nearest Village: Dino
Latitude: 46.052558N  Longitude: 8.985200E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Sculptured Stone in Tessin

In 2007, during reparation works of Villa Elena (casa Ghirlanda-Lepori), some objects were discovered built into a wall of this building, probably in order to preserve them. Amongst these objects was also a stone which turned out to be the upper part of a stele with celtic inscription. The inscription in Lepontic characters reads: […] uikalai. The writing is read from right to left.

The stele has a length of 48 cm, a breadth of 27 cm and a width of 10,5 cm. It was dated to the 4th to the middle of the 2nd Century BC.

It is safe and secure in a depot of Ufficio Cantonale dei Beni Culturali, Viale Stefano Franscini 30a, 6501 Bellinzona. tel. +41 91 814 13 80.


References:
1) Dell´Era Romeo, Una stele con iscrizione celtica individuata a Dino (Lugano, Canton Ticino), in Quaderni Ticinesi di Numismatica e Antiquità Classiche, NAC, 2018, p. 151 f.
2) SSDI Object No. 6967.02

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