CO·4

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ạklẹ[
Reading in original script:	][
Object:	CO·4 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	outside
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	4
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–early 4th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 287 Solinas 1995: 78 Morandi 2004: 151
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 624

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·4 from Morandi 2004

Garovaglio's drawing of CO·4 Rondineto with inscription CO·4 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877b: 102.

Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.14 (drawing by Giuseppe Massuero), Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.20 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 284, tav. XII.26), Gamurrini 1880: tav. I.2c (drawing copied from Massuero), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.4 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18c (drawing copied from Massuero), Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.151 (drawing copied from Garovaglio).

Inscribed below what Garovaglio 1877: 36, no. 21, considers to be the outside rim of the vessel. Older reading ]uklk[ based on the drawing in Barelli 1977b in Poggi 1879: 311, no. 42 (also Gamurrini 1880: 1, no. 2c, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 c, Giussani 1902: 44 f., no. 14, Rhŷs 1913: 38 f., no. III.1.1c, Rhŷs 1914: 8, Whatmough PID: 100); reading ]akle[ on the basis of Garovaglio's drawing by Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 205, no. 26 (also Solinas and Morandi).

See also Oberziner 1883: 145.

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.
Barelli 1877b	Vincenzo Barelli, "II. Como", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1877), 101–106.