CO·73

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	alios
Reading in original script:

Object:	CO·73 Civiglio (beaker)
Position:	outside
Orientation:	270°
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:	complete

Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 1, Golasecca III A 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	5^th c. BC [from object]

Type:	unknown
Language:	prob. Celtic
Meaning:	'Alios'

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 284 Solinas 1995: 60 Morandi 2004: 200

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 649 f. no. 200

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·73 from Giussani 1902

Inscription CO·73 from Morandi 2004

First published in Barelli 1878b: 28.

Images in Pauli 1885: Taf. I.21 (drawing copied from Poggi), Giussani 1902: 44, fig. 13 (drawing), De Marinis 1986: 76 (photo), Morandi 2004: 656, fig. 24.200 (drawing).

Inscribed vertically from bottom to top on the lower part of the beaker beneath the two stamped horses; the reading alios is clear. (See Poggi 1879: 310, no. 40, Pauli 1885: 11, no. 21, Giussani 1902: 44, no. 13, Rhŷs 1913: 42–44, Pisani 1964: 283, no. 120E (owner's inscription), Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 148, De Marinis 1981: 246 f., 268, n. 149, De Marinis 1986: 75, no. 4, Gambari & Colonna 1988: 160, no. 3, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 110 f.).

Barelli 1878b	Vincenzo Barelli, "Sepolcreto romano in Civiglio", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 14 (1878), 25-34.
De Marinis 1981	Raffaele De Marinis, "Il periodo Golasecca III A in Lombardia", Studi Archeologici 1 (1981), 41–299.
De Marinis 1986	Raffaele De Marinis, "Lingua e alfabeto", in: Various authors, Como fra Etruschi e Celti, Como: Società Archeologica Comense 1986. (Catalogo della mostra), 73–76.
Gambari & Colonna 1988	Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il bicchiere con iscrizione arcaica da Castelletto Ticino e l'adozione della scrittura nell'Italia nord-occidentale", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119–164.