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Latest revision as of 18:19, 25 March 2025

Inscription
Reading in transliteration: atlatụ
Reading in original script: A2 dT dL dA2 dT dU3 d

Object: BS·16 Remedello (cup)
Position: bottom, outside
Orientation: 180°
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters: 6
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: La Tène D 2 [from object]
Date of inscription: 1st c. BC [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: Celtic
Meaning: 'Atlatu'

Alternative sigla: Solinas 1995: 46
Morandi 2004: 245

Sources: Morandi 2004: 677

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Commentary

First published in Tibiletti Bruno 1973: 163–165.

Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1973: tav. D3 (photo), Frontini 1985: tav. 15.7, Morandi 2004: 679, fig. 27.245 (drawing).

Inscribed upside-down on the outside bottom of the cup. The first four letters are clear; after T d follows a short oblique scratch in the upper area, and a small chevron U3 d in the lower area. The reason for this is not clear – cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1973: 164 f., who tentatively reads the chevron as inverted upsilon, and considers the possibility that the single line is iota. Solinas and Morandi give, without discussion, a reading atlatu, which has the advantage of being a plausible personal name (see the word page).

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