CO·72

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	plioiso
Reading in original script:
Object:	CO·72 San Fermo della Battaglia (bowl)
Position:	bottom, inside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	1.4–5.5 cm0.551 in <br />2.165 in <br />
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete, damaged
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 1, Golasecca III A 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'of Plios'
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 96 Morandi 2004: 148
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 623 no. 148

Images

Drawing of CO·72 San Fermo della Battaglia with inscription CO·72 from Gambari & Colonna 1988

Inscription CO·72 from Morandi 2004

Fragment CO·72 San Fermo della Battaglia with inscription CO·72 from Morandi 2004

Commentary

First published in De Marinis 1986: 75, no. 6.

Images in Gambari & Colonna 1988: 162, fig. 25 (drawing = Lejeune 1990: 70 = De Marinis & Motta 1991: 215, fig. 10), Morandi 1999: 182 (drawing = Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.148) and tav. XVI.1 (photo = Morandi 2004: 799, tav. XXII.148).

Inscribed in tall, slender letters on the inside of the bowl; damaged by breaks, but unambiguous. Unlike the other attestations of plioiso, written after firing, hence unclear relation to the putative workman's signature (see Lejeune 1990: 70 f., Morandi 1999: 182 f., no. 31). See also Gambari & Colonna 1988: 162, no. 7, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 107 f., De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214, no. 7.

Bibliography

De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.
De Marinis 1986	Raffaele De Marinis, "Lingua e alfabeto", in: Various authors, Como fra Etruschi e Celti, Como: Società Archeologica Comense 1986. (Catalogo della mostra), 73–76.
Gambari & Colonna 1988	Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il bicchiere con iscrizione arcaica da Castelletto Ticino e l'adozione della scrittura nell'Italia nord-occidentale", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119–164.