CO·20

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ṛp̣ịạ[
Reading in original script:	][
Object:	CO·20 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	foot, 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
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:	'°rpia' (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 298 bis Solinas 1995: 91 Morandi 2004: 167
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 632

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·20 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·20 Rondineto with inscription CO·20 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·20 Rondineto with inscription CO·20 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Garovaglio 1883: 20, no. 4.

Images in Garovaglio 1883: fig. 4 (drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 283, tav. XI.24 (photo = Morandi 1999: 202, tav. XV.2 = Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.167), Morandi 1999: 180 (drawing = Morandi 2004: 634, fig. 21.167).

Remains of four letters, written in a tight curve and meeting in the centre, on the preserved half of the foot. Whatmough PID: 103, 298 bis read ]unia[ (from Garovaglio's drawing); ]ṛp̣ịạ[ from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 203 f., no. 24 (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 147, Morandi 1999: 180, no. 28). Exact form of alpha unknown; considered complete at the end by Morandi; uncertain TB and Solinas.

Palaeographical dating (alpha) to the 5^th/4^th century BC by Morandi.