CO·74

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: prn
Reading in original script: N sR sP s

Object: CO·74 Brunate (bowl)
Position: bottom, outside
Orientation: 180°
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters: 3
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: Golasecca III A 3 [from object]
Date of inscription: early 4th c. BC [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: perhaps Celtic
Meaning: abbreviation (?)

Alternative sigla: Solinas 1995: 55
Morandi 2004: 201

Sources: Morandi 2004: 650 no. 201

Images

Commentary

First published in Frigerio 1970-3: 66-76, no. 3.

Images in Frigerio 1970-3: fig. 2, tav. I, Tibiletti Bruno 1977b: 120 (drawing), Morandi 2004: ?, fig. 24.201 (drawing).

Inscribed upside-down on the bottom of the patera; the readings appears to be unambiguous. See Tibiletti Bruno 1977b: 120–122, no. 104 c, De Marinis 1986: 75, no. 7, Gambari & Colonna 1988: 163, no. 12, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 111.

Bibliography

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.
Frigerio 1970-3 Giancarlo Frigerio, "Nuove Acquisizioni Storico-Archeologiche da una Tomba di Brunate", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 152-155 (1970-1973), 65-76.
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.