CO·21

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ṇ : ṣulọiḳei : [
Reading in original script:	][
Variant reading:	]ṃ suloikei (Tibiletti Bruno)
Object:	CO·21 Rondineto (slab)
Position:	front
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic Script"North Italic Script" is not in the list (Greek script, Etruscan script, Latin script, North Italic script, Camunic script, none, unknown) of allowed values for the "script" property.
Number of letters:	9
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th / 4th century BC [from object]
Type:	prob. funerary
Language:	Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	"(...) to Suloigis (...)"
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 24 Solinas 1995: 75 Morandi 2004: 168
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 632-633 & 634 (fig. 21.168) & 801 (pl. XXIV.168) Solinas 1995: 348 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 181-182

Commentary

Very similar to the inscription of Prestino, nearly same size and shape of the stone and the letters (Rittatore Vonwiller 1968: p. 471)

• 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
• Tibiletti Bruno 1989: p. 91 (chronology of alphabetical signs)
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299, Addenda, p. 630
• Solinas 1994: p. 348, n. 75

Bibliography

Ferri 1967	Silvio Ferri, "Esigenze Archeologiche VIII", Studi Orientali e Classici 16 (1967), 431-432.
Garovaglio 1879	Alfonso Garovaglio, "Rondineto, altre scoperte", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 15 (1879), 18-21.