CO·3

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ouki?[
Reading in original script:	]?[
Object:	CO·3 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	unknown
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	1.3 cm0.512 in <br />
Number of letters:	5
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): 286 Solinas 1995: 77 Morandi 2004: 150
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 624

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·3 from Morandi 2004

Drawing of inscription CO·3 from Solinas 1995

Potsherd CO·3 Rondineto with inscription CO·3 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877b: 102.

Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.13 (drawing), Gamurrini 1880: tav. I.2b (drawing copied from Barelli), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.7 (drawing), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18b (drawing copied from Barelli), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 286, tav. XIV.37 (photo), Solinas 1995: 349 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.150 (drawing).

Inscribed quite neatly on the rim (?) of the vessel. Older reading ]θuki[ in Poggi 1879: 311, no. 48 (also Gamurrini 1880: 1, no. 2b, Oberziner 1883: 145); ]ouki[ (or ]olki[) in Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 b, also Giussani 1902: 44 f., no. 14, Rhŷs 1913: 38 f., no. III.1.1b, Rhŷs 1914: 8, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 212 f., no. 37. Whatmough PID: 100 "noticed a clear punct between u and k" which is not visible in the photo.

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.