CO·6
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| Reading in transliteration: | p̣lioiso |
| Reading in original script: |     
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| Object: | CO·6 Rondineto (bowl) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Frame: |  ? (left: none, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
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| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 2.5 cm0.984 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 7 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched into leather-hard clay |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | Golasecca III A [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 5th–early 4th c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | prob. mark of manufacturer |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'of Plios' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 289 Solinas 1995: 80 Motta 2000: 14 Morandi 2004: 153 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 625 |
Images
 Drawing of CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Gambari & Colonna 1988
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 Drawing of inscription CO·6 from Morandi 2004
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 Potsherd CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Morandi 2004
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 Garovaglio's drawing of CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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 Bergamaschi's drawing of CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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 Potsherd CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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Commentary
Images in Garovaglio 1878: tav. III.12 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 274, tav. II.2a (as original) and b (corrected by mirroring), Bergamaschi 1878: ? (drawing = Barelli 1878c: tav. XII.13 = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 275, tav. III.2c), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18 e (drawing from Poggi), Rhŷs 1914: pl. III (photo), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 275, tav. III.2d (photo), De Marinis 1986: 76 (photo), Gambari & Colonna 1988: 161, fig. 24 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 183 (drawing = in essence Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.153) and 203, tav. XVI.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: 799, tav. XXII.153), Stifter 2020: ? (photo).
Poggi 1879: 311, no. 46 lioiso, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 e lioiso, Giussani 1902: 45, Rhŷs 1913: 39, III.1.1e, Rhŷs 1914: 8, 10–23 saw the trace before lambda but ran with elioiso, Whatmough PID: 101, no. 289 ]plioiso, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 175–179, no. 2 complete in front (already Rhys), also Tibiletti Bruno 1969 optative (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 107 f.), Gambari & Colonna 1988: 161, no. 4 genitive, Lejeune 1990: 70, no. 15, Morandi 1999: 183 f., no. 32 on the form of sigma (may have had one more bar on top actually).
See also Campanile 1969.
Bibliography
| Barelli 1878c | Vincenzo Barelli, "IV. Rondineto", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1878), 201–224. |
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| Bergamaschi 1878 | Gianni (?) Bergamaschi, "Tavole XI, XII, XIII", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 13 (1878). |
| Campanile 1969 | Enrico Campanile, "Su una Presunta Forma Ottativale Epicorica a Comum", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 9 (1969), 211-215. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Garovaglio 1878 | Alfonso Garovaglio, "Qualificazioni delle figure contenute nelle tavole III e IV", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 13 (1878), 36-37. |
