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{{inscription
|reading=tai
|reading_lepontic={{c|T|T2|d}}{{c|A|A22}}{{c|I|I|d}}
|direction=dextroverse
|letter_height_min=0
|letter_number_min=3
|word_number=1
|line_number=1
|corpus=Cisalpine Celtic
|script=Latin script
|script_adaptation=North Italic script
|object=BG·36 Verdello
|position=foot, outside
|workmanship=scratched after firing
|condition=complete
|type_inscription=unknown
|language=Celtic
|linguistic_ascription=perhaps
|meaning='of Taios' (?)
|morandi=293
|source_detail=Morandi 2004: 714 f. no. 293
|checklevel=0
|disambiguation=BG·36
}}
== Commentary ==
First published in {{bib|Morandi 2003}}: 130–132, no. 12.

Images in {{bib|Jorio 2003}}: 206, 1.2 (drawing), {{bib|Morandi 2003}}: 131, fig. 15 (photo = {{bib|Morandi 2004}}: 714, fig. 37).

Inscribed on the foot of the cup near the rim. The alphabet appears to be the same one as used in [[BG·36.1]], where all three letters occur in the same forms; the two inscriptions belong together and are very probably from the same hand ({{bib|Morandi 2003}}: 131). How the two parts relate to each other is unclear, see [[BG·36.1]]. {{w||tai}} may be, as many three-letter sequences, an abbreviation of a personal name ({{bib|Morandi 2007}}: 301, no. 33), but the ending in ''i'' also allows for an interpretation as a genitive (Morandi 2003, 2004). The name may be Celtic, but – as with {{w||cilo}} in Latin script from the same grave – good comparanda are rare and no etymology suggests itself (see the word page). See [[BG·36.1]] for a possible interpretation of the whole document as a pottery production note.
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