CO·69

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	unknown
Reading in original script:	unknown
Variant reading:	(sin.) pokru, po / k / ru (Solinas, Colonna) (dextr.) k / ruop (De Marinis) (dextr.) k / riop (Watmough)
Object:	CO·69 Ossuccio (bowl)
Position:	foot, outside
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Script:	North Italic script
Number of letters:	5
Workmanship:	unknown
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	second half of 5th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	prob. Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 279 Solinas 1995: 64 Morandi 2004: 145
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 618-619 & 621 (fig. 19.145) Solinas 1995: 343 Gambari & Colonna 1986: 163 Motta 2000: 210

Images

Drawing of CO·69 Ossuccio with inscription CO·69 from Bertolone 1957

Drawing of inscription CO·69 from Morandi

Drawing of inscription CO·69 from Solinas

Commentary

Written in three groups of letter turning the vase clockwisely (Gambari & Colonna 1986: p. 163, n.11)

• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 279
• Giussani 1917-8: pp. 3-14
• De Marinis 1981: p. 118, n.2, Tav. 49,2
• Solinas 1995: p. 343, n.64

Bibliography

Bertolone 1957	Mario Bertolone, "Ancora sulla ceramica del Golasecca III A", Sibrium 3 (1956–1957), 55–71.
De Marinis 1981	Raffaele De Marinis, "Il periodo Golasecca III A in Lombardia", Studi Archeologici 1 (1981), 41–299.
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.