NO·1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	§χosioiso v
Reading in original script:	Χ s
Variant reading:	Χ s §χosioissi v (Morandi), χosioio (Gambari & Colonna 1988)
Object:	NO·1 Castelletto sopra Ticino (beaker)
Position:	neck, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script
Letter height:	0.6–1.5 cm0.236 in <br />0.591 in <br />
Number of letters:	9–10
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca II A [from object]
Date of inscription:	second quarter of 6th c. BC [from object]
Type:	prob. mark of possessor
Language:	Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	NP
Meaning:	"of Gosios"
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 113 bis Morandi 2004: 74
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 569-570 & 576 (fig. 13.74) & 788 (pl. XI.74) Solinas 1995: 369 Gambari & Colonna 1986: 130-132

Images

Inscription NO·1 from Gambari & Colonna 1988	Photo of beaker NO·1 Castelletto sopra Ticino with symbol from Gambari & Colonna 1988	First part of inscription NO·1 from Morandi 2004	Second part of inscription NO·1 from Morandi 2004	Beaker NO·1 Castelletto sopra Ticino with inscription NO·1
Zig-zag line before inscription NO·1	First part of inscription NO·1	Second part of inscription NO·1	Symbol after inscription NO·1	Inscription NO·1

Commentary

Similar "zig-zag"-ornaments before inscriptions are known from Greek and Etruscan contexts, see Gambari & Colonna (1986: 131, fn. 49, regarding the "zig-zag" cf. also Morandi 1999: p. 153 and the beaker from Gudo). The sigma: dextroverse, seven segments, is considerable normal for archaic Lepontic inscriptions. (Gambari & Colonna 1986: pp. 141-144)

• Gambari & Colonna 1986 : pp. 119-164
• Prosdocimi 1991: pp. 142-144
• Motta 1992: 312-313
• Lejeune 1990: pp. 69-70
• Morandi 1999: pp. 153-156
• Solinas 1994: p. 369, n.113 bis

Bibliography

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.
Gambari 2004	Filippo Maria Gambari, "I signori del commercio sulle vie d'acqua. Il ruolo degli scambi nella cultura di Golasecca", in: Franco Marzatico, Paul Gleirscher (eds), Guerrieri, principi ed eroi fra il Danubio e il Po dalla preistoria all'alto medioevo, Trento: Castello del Buonconsiglio 2004, 304–313.
Gambari 2018	Filippo M. Gambari, "Un alfabeto antico per lingue nuove. Le prime attestazioni delle lingue celtiche nelle epigrafi preromane della lombardia occidentale", in: Cristina Miedico (ed.), Le voci degli altri. Linguaggi, parole e alfabeti inconsueti nella Lombardia antica, Angera: 2018, 31–41.