BG·29
From Lexicon Leponticum
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| Reading in transliteration: | tau |
| Reading in original script: |   
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| Object: | BG·29 Verdello (cup) |
| Position: | outside, wall |
| Orientation: | 180° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| adapted to: | Latin script |
| Number of letters: | 3 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | Roman republican period [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | second half of 1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | perhaps Celtic |
| Meaning: | abbreviation (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 286 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 711 no. 286 |
Commentary
First published in Morandi 2003: 125 f., no. 2.
Images in Morandi 2003: 125, fig. 2 (photo) and 126 (drawing).
Inscribed upside-down on the wall of the cup; damaged by the breaks, but clearly legible. The bar of alpha is only slightly inclined; the letter form is likely an adaptation of normal younger Lepontic 
to a form which is more similar to Latin 
(cf. BG·22, BG·31, BG·36.1 and BG·36.2). The form may be an abbreviation of a personal name, possibly Celtic – <au> may be a Latinised spelling (cf. BG·37), see the word page.
From the same grave BG·32 and a Latin graffito (see the object page).
