Stele of Novilara
E86921
The Stele of Novilara is an ancient inscribed stone monument from the Picene region of Italy, bearing one of the most significant and enigmatic examples of the North Picene language.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stele of Novilara canonical | 2 |
| Novilara Stele with ship scene | 1 |
| Novilara stelae | 1 |
| Picene stelae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T719374 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stele of Novilara Context triple: [North Picene alphabet, notableInscription, Stele of Novilara]
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A.
Dream Stele of Thutmose IV
The Dream Stele of Thutmose IV is an ancient Egyptian inscribed stone slab commemorating a dream in which the future pharaoh was promised kingship by the sun god if he cleared the sand from the Great Sphinx of Giza.
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B.
Stele Pavilion
Stele Pavilion is a commemorative structure within the Ming Tombs complex that houses inscribed stone tablets honoring the emperors buried there.
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C.
Cippus Abellanus
Cippus Abellanus is an ancient stone inscription from southern Italy, written in the Oscan language and valued as a key source for understanding the culture and legal practices of the Samnite people.
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D.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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E.
Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is an ancient Egyptian basalt slab inscribed with a theological and cosmological text from the 25th Dynasty that preserves a Memphite creation myth and early philosophical ideas about the god Ptah.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stele of Novilara Target entity description: The Stele of Novilara is an ancient inscribed stone monument from the Picene region of Italy, bearing one of the most significant and enigmatic examples of the North Picene language.
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A.
Dream Stele of Thutmose IV
The Dream Stele of Thutmose IV is an ancient Egyptian inscribed stone slab commemorating a dream in which the future pharaoh was promised kingship by the sun god if he cleared the sand from the Great Sphinx of Giza.
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B.
Stele Pavilion
Stele Pavilion is a commemorative structure within the Ming Tombs complex that houses inscribed stone tablets honoring the emperors buried there.
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C.
Cippus Abellanus
Cippus Abellanus is an ancient stone inscription from southern Italy, written in the Oscan language and valued as a key source for understanding the culture and legal practices of the Samnite people.
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D.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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E.
Shabaka Stone
The Shabaka Stone is an ancient Egyptian basalt slab inscribed with a theological and cosmological text from the 25th Dynasty that preserves a Memphite creation myth and early philosophical ideas about the god Ptah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient monument
ⓘ
archaeological artifact ⓘ inscribed stele ⓘ |
| alphabetFamily | Etruscan-derived alphabet ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Picenes ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
North Picene inscriptions
ⓘ
Picenum ⓘ |
| chronology | Iron Age ⓘ |
| culture | Picene culture ⓘ |
| currentStatus | museum object ⓘ |
| date |
6th century BCE
ⓘ
7th century BCE ⓘ |
| depiction |
ships
ⓘ
warrior scene ⓘ weapons ⓘ |
| discoveredIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| era | pre-Roman Italy ⓘ |
| function | commemorative monument ⓘ |
| hasWriting | North Picene text ⓘ |
| inscriptionLanguage | North Picene language ⓘ |
| inscriptionLength | relatively long text for North Picene ⓘ |
| inscriptionMedium | carved ⓘ |
| inscriptionType | funerary inscription ⓘ |
| interpretationStatus | partially undeciphered ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Italy
ⓘ
Marche region ⓘ
surface form:
Marche
Novilara ⓘ Marche region ⓘ
surface form:
Picene region
|
| material | stone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
enigmatic and poorly understood language
ⓘ
iconography of warfare and seafaring ⓘ |
| period |
Villanovan culture
ⓘ
surface form:
Orientalizing period in Italy
|
| regionOfDiscovery | Adriatic coast of central Italy ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Italic epigraphy
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Stele of Novilara self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Picene stelae
|
| researchField |
Italic archaeology
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epigraphy ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
| significance |
one of the longest known North Picene inscriptions
ⓘ
one of the most important examples of the North Picene language ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Old Italic script ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Stele of Novilara Description of subject: The Stele of Novilara is an ancient inscribed stone monument from the Picene region of Italy, bearing one of the most significant and enigmatic examples of the North Picene language.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Picene stelae
this entity surface form:
Novilara Stele with ship scene