BG·2.1
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| Reading in transliteration: | ]p̣euesa |
| Reading in original script: |      [
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| Object: | BG·2 Bergamo (bowl) (Inscriptions: BG·2.1, BG·2.2) |
| Position: | bottom, outside |
| Orientation: | 180° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 0.8 cm0.315 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 6 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 3rd–2nd c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Syntactic analysis: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 212 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 658 no. 212 |
Images
 Inscription BG·2.1 from Morandi
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 Inscription BG·2.1 from Morandi
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Commentary
First published in Poggiani Keller 1989: 234.
Images in Poggiani Keller 2001: 410, fig. 16.5 (drawing), Morandi 2004: tav. XXVII.212 (photo = Morandi 2007: 290, fig. 283) and 656, fig. 24.212 (drawing), Casini & Motta 2018: 119, fig. 2.3 (photo and drawing).
Incised upside-down along the rim of the foot. At the breaking edge, the very top of a hasta and a bar in the upper area can be pi or lambda 
, theoretically also waw 
, three-bar mu 
(cf. BG·1) or, according to Casini & Motta 2018: 220, no. 3, rho 
(alpha and epsilon being unlikely for phonetical reasons). Upsilon is not closed at the bottom (cf. BG·23). Morandi points to leucuro as a possible comparandum for leuesa, but that morpheme is probably leu̯k-. We prefer the reading with pi because of the rareness of lambda with the bar on top and the possible analysis (see the word page).
David Stifter, Corinna Salomon
Bibliography
| Casini & Motta 2018 | Stefania Casini, Filippo Motta, "Iscrizioni vascolari celtiche a Bergamo", Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 26 (2018), 115–128. |
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