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{{inscription
|reading=unknown!o&#x0323;i&#x0323;e?(?)lu&#x0323;
|reading_lepontic={{c|U}}{{c|L|L2}}(?)?{{c|E|E9}}{{c|I}}{{c|O|O3}}
|direction=sinistroverse
|letter_height_min=1.5 cm
|letter_height_max=2 cm
|letter_number_min=6
|letter_number_max=7
|word_number=1
|line_number=1
|corpus=Cisalpine Celtic
|script=North Italic script
|object=MI·10 Milano
|position=right-hand side
|orientation=180
|workmanship=carved
|condition=complete, damaged
|type_inscription=unknown
|language=unknown
|meaning=unknown
|solinas=104 e
|morandi=140 e
|source_detail=Morandi 2004: 615–617 no. 140 e
|checklevel=0
}}
==Commentary==
First published in {{bib|Tibiletti Bruno 1986}}: 106. Examined for LexLep (on the original and on the cast) on 26<sup>th</sup> April 2022.

Images in {{bib|Tibiletti Bruno 1986}}: 100, fig. 1 (photo of a cast) and fig. 2 (drawing of the inscription as on the cast, hence retrograde = {{bib|Solinas 1995}}: 365; mirrored in LexLep for easier comparison with the other images), {{bib|Morandi 2004}}: 621, fig. 19.140a (drawing) and tav. XXI.140 a, c (photos), {{bib|Zavaroni et al. 2014}}: 281, fig. 2 (drawing) and 290, fig. 4 (photo of the additional letters). The composite photos were made during the autopsy for {{bib|Zavaroni et al. 2014}} and were kindly provided by Alberto Zavaroni; the tracing of letters reflects the readings in that publication. Our photo is of the inscription on the cast kept by the [[Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la città metropolitana di Milano (Milano)|Soprintendenza Milano]].

Inscribed lengthwise above the latter part of [[MI·10.2]] (length 6.5 cm). Epsilon is the best legible letter and indicates the direction in which the inscription must be read; based on the execution of the incised lines, we agree with Tibiletti Bruno that the inscription is inverted with regard to the slab's orientation in the wall, like [[MI·10.2]], and thus sinistroverse. Putative omicron is not closed at the top. Putative iota features a short bar on the right and another on top. Following epsilon are two vertical scratches, the first only slightly, the second more pronouncedly bent. Tibiletti Bruno suggests either a single letter pi {{c||P2}} (with long second bar), which is not typical for the Lepontic alphabet, but would match inverted lambda (also in [[MI·10.1]]), or two letters iota and sigma (both implausible). The next letter looks like inverted lambda {{c||L2}}, which would go with pi, unlike putative final non-inverted upsilon {{c||U}}. Tibiletti Bruno's reading is not vetoed by Morandi (''oieplu''), but does not – as Tibiletti Bruno herself concedes – seem quite plausible. See also {{bib|Zavaroni et al. 2014}}: 288, no. 3 (''ole ulu'').

Between [[MI·10.2]] and the final letter of the present inscription, two larger, but more faintly engraved letters can be made out: {{c||U3}}{{c||R}} (or inverted {{c||R|d}}{{c||U|d}}) ''ru'', part of the curve of rho coinciding with the lower bar of alpha in [[MI·10.2]]. See also {{bib|Zavaroni et al. 2014}}: 289, no. 4b (''uruθ'' in ligature).
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