CO·2

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]akụṛ[
Reading in original script:	][
Object:	CO·2 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	foot, outside
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	1.7 cm0.669 in <br />
Number of letters:	4
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): 285 Solinas 1995: 76 Morandi 2004: 149
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 623 f.

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·2 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·2 Rondineto with inscription CO·2 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·2 Rondineto with inscription CO·2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877b: 102.

Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.12 (drawing by Giuseppe Massuero), Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.19 (drawing), Gamurrini 1880: tav. I.2a (drawing copied from Massuero), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.2 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18a (drawing copied from Massuero), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 283, tav. XI.25 (photo), Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.149 (drawing) and 799, tav. XXII.149 (photo).

Inscribed on the foot along the rim. Reading ]akur[ first in Poggi 1879: 311, no. 41, also Gamurrini 1880: 1, no. 2a, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 a, Giussani 1902: 44 f., no. 14, Rhŷs 1913: 38 f., no. III.1.1a, Rhŷs 1914: 8, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 204, no. 25.

See also Oberziner 1883: 145.

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.