NO·15.1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	kr
Reading in original script:
Object:	NO·15 Oleggio (bowl) (Inscriptions: NO·15.1, NO·15.2)
Position:	bottom, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	2
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	70–50 BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 91
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 580

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1999: 390, no. 11.

Image in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 154, fig. 141.9 (drawing).

Inscribed in large letters on the bottom of the bowl; possibly an abbreviation of a name (see the word page).

Bibliography

Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999	Angela Deodato, Elena Poletti Ecclesia, "Catalogo", in: Giuseppina Spagnolo Garzoli (ed.), Conubia gentium. La necropoli di Oleggio e la romanizzazione dei Vertamocori. Oleggio, Palazzo Bellini 23 gennaio - 30 aprile 1999, Torino: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologica del Piemonte 1999, 55–286.