CO·71
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| Reading in transliteration: | ]ẹna / ]ones : ṃ[ / ]ẹị[ |
| Reading in original script: |    []     []  [
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| Object: | CO·71 San Fermo della Battaglia (slab) |
| Position: | front |
| Frame: | ? ? (left: unknown, middle: between, right: unknown)
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| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 12–15 cm4.724 in <br />5.906 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 10–11 |
| Number of words: | 4 |
| Number of lines: | 3 |
| Workmanship: | carved |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | unknown [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | prob. Celtic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299 bis Solinas 1995: 95 Morandi 2004: 147 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 622 f. no. 147 |
Images
 Drawing of inscription CO·71 from Morandi 2004
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 Fragment CO·71 San Fermo della Battaglia with inscription CO·71 from Solinas 1995
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 Drawing of inscription CO·71 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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Commentary
First published in Giussani 1927: 145–148.
Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 273, tav. I.1a (drawing from Giussani 1927: 147, fig. 8) and 1b (photo), Solinas 1995: tav. LXVII.d (photo), Morandi 2004: 621, fig. 20.147 (drawing).
The remains of three lines are preserved on the roughly triangular fragment; they are separated by frame lines, but the frame above line 1 in Giussani's drawing is not certain. Line 1 ends on the fragment, while lines 2 and 3 are incomplete at both ends. Reading from Whatmough 1933 (PID): 630, no. 299 bis based on Giussani's drawing. The reading of lines 1 and 2 is clear, though only the tips of the three bars are left of epsilon in line 1, and the fourth bar of mu in line 2 may just be missing (pace Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 174); at the beginning of line 2 the very tip of a bar may be made out (ibid.). In line 3, which is not preserved in its full height at any point, the first preserved letter could as well be alpha; according to Solinas, only a single hasta can be made out today. The letters of line 1 are larger than those of line 2; Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 173 f., no. 1, assumes that line 2 predates the others. See also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 142 f., Prosdocimi 1986: 238, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 106 f.
Dated palaeographically to the 5th century BC by Morandi.
