TI·16
From Lexicon Leponticum
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| Reading in transliteration: | rio |
| Reading in original script: |   
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| Object: | TI·16 Giubiasco (bowl) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Direction of writing: | ambiguous |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 3 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched |
| Condition: | unknown |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | unknown [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | perhaps Celtic |
| Meaning: | abbreviation (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 17 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 528 no. 17 |
Commentary
First published in Kientz 1943: 765.
Image in Kientz 1943: 765 (drawing = Crivelli 1943: 52, fig. 123).
Kientz, who claims to have seen the inscribed fragment at Bellinzona, but does not identify it, provides a drawing of the letters (iota appears to be damaged) and the reading rio, and compares TI·15. The same drawing is found in Crivelli 1943 without reference to the source; both Kientz and Crivelli (p. 53) consider the inscription to be dextroverse.
The sequence rio could, like riop in TI·15, be an abbreviation of a personal name, but the matter must be considered uncertain until the reading can be verified.
Bibliography
| Crivelli 1943 | Aldo Crivelli, Atlante preistorico e storico della Svizzera Italiana. Vol. 1: Dalle origini alla civiltà romana, Bellinzona: Istituto Editoriale Ticinese 1943. |
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