CO·21

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ṇ : ṣulọiḳei : [
Reading in original script:	][
Object:	CO·21 Rondineto (slab)
Position:	front
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	9
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–early 4th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'... to/for Suloikis ...' (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 24 Solinas 1995: 75 Morandi 2004: 168
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 632 f.

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·21 from Morandi 2004

Slab CO·21 Rondineto with inscription CO·21 from Morandi 2004

Drawing of inscription CO·21 from Rittatore Vonwiller 1968

Drawing of inscription CO·21 from Solinas 1995

Slab CO·21 Rondineto with inscription CO·21 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Rittatore Vonwiller 1968: 472 (drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 287, tav. XV.38 (photo = Morandi 2004: 801, tav. XXIV.168), Solinas 1995: 348 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 634, fig. 21.168 (drawing).

Very similar to the inscription of Prestino, nearly same size and shape of the stone and the letters (Rittatore Vonwiller 1968: p. 471). Drawing executed after the object was found again by Paolo Maggi (Rittatore Vonwiller 1968: 471, fn. 5).

• Garovaglio 1879: p. 19, nr. g, pl. 2 fig. g
• Giussani 1902: pp. 45-46
• Ferri 1967
• Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: pp. 213-216, nr. 38, Tav. XV ]ṃ suloikei
• Tibiletti Bruno 1989: p. 91 (chronology of alphabetical signs)
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299, Addenda, p. 630
• Solinas 1995: p. 348, n. 75

Bibliography

Barelli 1879	Vincenzo Barelli, "Altre scoperte preromane in Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 15 (1879), 14–18.
Ferri 1967	Silvio Ferri, "Esigenze archeologiche - VIII", Studi Classici e Orientali 16 (1967), 417–435.