TI·1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	mχme
Reading in original script:	Χ3 d
Variant reading:	§ (letter-like decoration)
Object:	TI·1 Gudo (beaker)
Position:	outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	unknown
Number of letters:	4
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca II B [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 6th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 17 Motta 2000: 16 Morandi 2004: 2
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 520 & 525 (fig. 8.2) Motta 2000: 209 Solinas 1994: 326-327

Images

Beaker TI·1 Gudo with inscription TI·1 from Morandi	Inscription TI·1 from Morandi	Inscription TI·1 from Morandi	Inscription TI·1 from Solinas	Beaker TI·1 Gudo with inscription TI·1
Beaker TI·1 Gudo with inscription TI·1

Commentary

Epsilon with four strokes is well attested between the Valtellina and the Val Camonica; in Lepontic area it is attested in the coin legend NM·6 seχeθu (Morandi 1999: 154, see also fn. 11 (inscription in Castaneda (?)). Regarding the "zig-zag" cf. NO·1 and Morandi 1999: 153-154, fn. 12.

• Whatmough 1933 (PID): note 15
• Morandi 1999: pp. 153-4, fn. 10
• Motta 2000: p. 209,n.16
• De Marinis 1981:p. 199 (classification: type C2)
• Solinas 1994: p. 326 n.17
• Stöckli 1975: pp. 17-18, fig. 11

Bibliography

Baserga 1911	Giovanni Baserga, "La necropoli preromana di Gudo nel Canton Ticino", Rivista Archeologica di Como 62 (1911), 95.