CO·73

edit with form

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	alios
Reading in original script:
Object:	CO·73 Civiglio (beaker)
Position:	outside
Orientation:	270°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	5
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 1, Golasecca III A 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	prob. Celtic
Meaning:	'Alios'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 284 Solinas 1995: 60 Morandi 2004: 200
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 649 f. no. 200

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·73 from Giussani 1902

Inscription CO·73 from Morandi 2004

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1878b: 28.

Images in Pauli 1885: Taf. I.21 (drawing copied from Poggi), Giussani 1902: 44, fig. 13 (drawing), De Marinis 1986: 76 (photo), De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214, fig. 9 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 656, fig. 24.200 (drawing).

Inscribed vertically from bottom to top on the lower part of the beaker beneath the two stamped horses; the reading alios is clear. (See Poggi 1879: 310, no. 40, Pauli 1885: 11, no. 21, Giussani 1902: 44, no. 13, Rhŷs 1913: 42–44, Pisani 1964: 283, no. 120E (owner's inscription), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 148, De Marinis 1981: 246 f., 268, n. 149, De Marinis 1986: 75, no. 4, Gambari & Colonna 1988: 160, no. 3, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 110 f.), De Marinis & Motta 1991: 212, no. 5.

See also Kretschmer 1905: 104, Rhŷs 1914: 24, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 170, n. 2.

Bibliography

Barelli 1878b	Vincenzo Barelli, "Sepolcreto romano in Civiglio", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 14 (1878), 25-34.
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 1981	Raffaele De Marinis, "Il periodo Golasecca III A in Lombardia", Studi Archeologici 1 (1981), 41–299.
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.