CO·7

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	sḷạ[
Reading in original script:	]?
Object:	CO·7 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	bottom, inside
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–early 4th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 290 Solinas 1995: 81 Morandi 2004: 154
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 625 f.

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·7 from Solinas 1995

Garovaglio's drawing of CO·7 Rondineto with inscription CO·7 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.15 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 281, tav. IX.16), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.1 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Solinas 1995: 352 (drawing).

All three preserved letters damaged in the upper area. Read ]uls[ by Poggi 1879: 311, no. 43 (also Oberziner 1883: 145), ]uạs[ by Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 f (also Giussani 1902: 45, Rhŷs 1913: 39, III.1.1f, Rhŷs 1914: 8); Whatmough PID: 101, no. 290 alternatively ]sal[, ]ạus[ or ]sup[; Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 197, no. 16 sḷạ[ (also Solinas and Morandi) or sụạ[. sla[ assumes that sigma is larger than preserved; plausibility of upright (?) alpha depends on the dating.

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.