CO·3

edit with form

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ouki?[
Reading in original script:	]?[
Object:	CO·3 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	unknown
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	5
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	unknown [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 286 Solinas 1995: 77 Morandi 2004: 150
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 624

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·3 from Morandi 2004

Drawing of inscription CO·3 from Solinas 1995

CO·3 Rondineto with inscription CO·3 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877b: 102.

Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.13 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.7 (drawing), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18b (drawing copied from Barelli), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 286, tav. XIV.37 (photo), Solinas 1995: 349 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.150 (drawing).

Inscribed quite neatly on the rim (?) of the vessel. Older reading ]θuki[ in Poggi 1879: 311, no. 48 (also Oberziner 1883: 145); ]ouki[ (or ]olki[) in Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 b, also Giussani 1902: 44 f., no. 14, Rhŷs 1913: 38 f., no. III.1.1b, Rhŷs 1914: 8, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 212 f., no. 37. Whatmough PID: 100 "noticed a clear punct between u and k" which is not visible in the photo.

See also Fabretti 1867: Appendix, 2b.

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.