PV·4
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| Reading in transliteration: | eripoχios |
| Reading in original script: |       
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| Object: | PV·4 Gropello Cairoli (bowl) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 0.5–2.5 cm0.197 in <br />0.984 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 9 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched into leather-hard clay |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D 1 [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 2nd c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Eripoχios' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 31 RIG: E-3 Solinas 1995: 112 Morandi 2004: 104 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 592 |
Images
 Tibiletti Bruno's drawing of inscription PV·4 from Morandi 1999
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 Inscription PV·4 on the mould of PV·4 Gropello Cairoli from Morandi 1999
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 Drawing of inscription PV·4 from Morandi 2004
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Commentary
First published in Mirabella Roberti & Pirani 1959: 21.
Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1965b: 560 (photo = RIG II.1: 39, fig. 16 [detail]) and 561 (drawing = RIG II.1: 39, fig. 17 = Morandi 1999: 186, fig. 7), Morandi 1999: 203, tav. XVI.3 (photo of a mould in the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica, Milano), Morandi 2004: 563, fig. 15.104 (drawing).
- Tibiletti Bruno 1965b
- Lejeune 1971: 20
- Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 148
- Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 186 f.
- RIG II.1: 38 f.
- Solinas 1995: 368, no. 112
- Morandi 1999: 185–187, no. 34
Originally read ericofios (Catalogo Museo Da Vinci 1959: 21). Discussion of the letter shapes in Tibiletti Bruno 1965b: 562–564. As observed by Morandi 1999: 185 f., the ductus is almost cursive; the inscription seems to be written before firing.
