CO·71

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ẹna / ]ones : ṃ[ / ]ẹị[
Reading in original script:	[ ][ ][
Object:	CO·71 San Fermo della Battaglia (slab)
Position:	front
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: between, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	12–15 cm4.724 in <br />5.906 in <br />
Number of letters:	10–11
Number of words:	4
Number of lines:	3
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	unknown [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	prob. Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299 bis Solinas 1995: 95 Morandi 2004: 147
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 622 f. no. 147

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·71 from Morandi 2004

Fragment CO·71 San Fermo della Battaglia with inscription CO·71 from Solinas 1995

Drawing of inscription CO·71 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Giussani 1927: 145–148.

Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 273, tav. I.1a (drawing from Giussani 1927: 147, fig. 8) and 1b (photo), Solinas 1995: tav. LXVII.d (photo), Morandi 2004: 621, fig. 20.147 (drawing).

The remains of three lines are preserved on the roughly triangular fragment; they are separated by frame lines, but the frame above line 1 in Giussani's drawing is not certain. Line 1 ends on the fragment, while lines 2 and 3 are incomplete at both ends. Reading from Whatmough 1933 (PID): 630, no. 299 bis based on Giussani's drawing. The reading of lines 1 and 2 is clear, though only the tips of the three bars are left of epsilon in line 1, and the fourth bar of mu in line 2 may just be missing (pace Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 174); at the beginning of line 2 the very tip of a bar may be made out (ibid.). In line 3, which is not preserved in its full height at any point, the first preserved letter could as well be alpha; according to Solinas, only a single hasta can be made out today. The letters of line 1 are larger than those of line 2; Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 173 f., no. 1, assumes that line 2 predates the others. See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 142 f., Prosdocimi 1986: 238, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 106 f.

Dated palaeographically to the 5^th century BC by Morandi.