Lepontische Inschriften aus dem Brembanatal

This work examines the language and the recurring words of the rock in-scriptions at the site of Carona, written in the Lugano alphabet. It is argued that thelanguage can be preliminarily classified as Lepontic. The frequently attested wordsisitiandześu(and furtherzaśu) are probably nouns that refer to entities or per-sons in the religious sphere of Carona.isitiis best analyzed as a feminineī-stemnominative. Other attested lexemes, such asisos, might contain the same deriva-tional basis. Furthermore, the inscriptions show some archaic features of nominalmorphology, whereas the lack of apparent verbal forms is remarkable