NO·3

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	ṃ[
Reading in original script:	]
Object:	NO·3 Castelletto sopra Ticino (bowl)
Position:	bottom, inside
Orientation:	180°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	unknown
Number of letters:	0
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca II B [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 6th–early 5th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 76
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 571

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1987: 412–414.

Image in Gambari 1987: 413, fig. 33.4 (drawing = Gambari 1989b: 213, fig. 2B).

Referred to as an inscription beginning in mu by Gambari (also 1989b: 215), but the prolongation of the putative hasta, with two horizontal bars forming crosses, draws this into doubt. Morandi aptly compares TI·1, which also features zig-zags and a similarly prolonged vertical line. Cf. also the para-script zig-zag element in NO·1. Thus probably para-script, unless a language-encoding sequence, as in NO·1, is lost.

Bibliography

Gambari 1987	Filippo Maria Gambari, "Scavi e scoperte 26. Castelletto Ticino (Novara)", Studi Etruschi 53 (1985 [1987]), 412–415.
Gambari 1989b	Filippo M. Gambari, "Il ruolo del commercio etrusco nello sviluppo delle culture piemontesi della prima età del Ferro", in: Eros Benedini (ed.), Gli etruschi a nord del Po. Atti del convegno Mantova 4-5 ottobre 1986, Mantova: 1989, 211–225.