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Red Cloud
Portrait of Charles II of Savoy known as the Good
Lamentation over the dead Christ
Madonna and Child
The children of Charles I of England
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
The archangel Gabriel and Tobias
Bas-relief with a garland of flowers and fruit
Madonna and Child
The three archangels and Tobias
the return of the prodigal son
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Madonna and Child
Trinity
Stigmata of St. Francis
The vanity of human life
Portrait of an Old Man
Annunciation
Venus
Bust of Minerva
Bust - manly portrait
Psykter di Euthymides
Plate decorated with ribbons and nets
Canteen bowl
Ingot Blade Kit
Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea
Colombine ointment
Signpost
Fibulae with disc bracket
Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy
Madona with Child
Story of Aeneas and Dido
The family of Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia
Holy family with San Giovannino
The Sacra di San Michele
The thirst suffered by the first crusaders under Jerusalem
Table tureen
Rotisserie
Coffee cup
Kanjar (pug)
Japanese armor of the Do-Maru type
Parade plaque of Henry II of France
Corsaletto
Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
Naked young man next to an old oriental dress
Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album

Signpost

Anonymous

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The serpentinite pebble, interpreted as a funerary marker, was found in an area on the edge of the rich Golasecchian necropolis of San Bernardino-Cascina Pierina (NO), where some burial mounds had been destroyed by agricultural work. In the center we recognize a schematic human figure made with small tapping strokes: it is a warrior who wields a spear with his right hand, while his left arm, raised behind his head, carries a small shield. The inscription quormsklp or "quormskla" is arranged around the figure following the shape of an inverted U, as in the horseshoe-shaped stele of northern Etruria and the Golasecca culture of the same time. The inscription is in an alphabet known as the "Lugano alphabet": these are alphabetic signs of Etruscan origin used to write the Celtic dialect of the area between Lake Maggiore and Lake Como starting from the end of the 7th century BC. It is likely that the inscription bears, abbreviated, the name of a person in the genitive (quorm [oi] s [o]), while klp or kla could be the abbreviation of * klappa, pebble: in this case it could translate with " pebble of Quormoiso ".
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Title: Signpost

Author: Anonymous

Date: 6 - 5 sec. BC

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Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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