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:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–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

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), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.2 (drawing), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18a (drawing from Barelli), 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 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 Fabretti 1867: Appendix, 2a, Oberziner 1883: 145.

Bibliography

Barelli 1877b	Vincenzo Barelli, "II. Como", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1877), 101–106.
CII	Ariodante Fabretti, Corpus inscriptionum italicarum antiquioris aevi. Ordine geographico digestum et glossarium italicum, in quo omnia vocabula continentur ex umbricis, sabinis, oscis, volscis, etruscis aliisque monumentis quae supersunt, Augusta Taurinorum: 1867.