CO·55

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ṇẹṛịọ?ọ[
Reading in original script:	]?[
Object:	CO·55 Prestino (bowl)
Position:	inside
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	damaged, fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 1, Golasecca III A 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 72 Morandi 2004: 187
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 643

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·55 from Gambari & Colonna 1988

Drawing of inscription CO·55 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·55 Prestino with inscription CO·55 from Morandi 2004

Commentary

Images in Gambari & Colonna 1988: 163 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 182 (drawing = Morandi 2004: 642, fig. 22.187) and tav. XV.4 (photo = Morandi 2004: 802, tav. XXV.187).

Only upper parts of letters preserved. Gambari & Colonna 1988: 163, no. 10, read [ ]nẹriọṣ based on a drawing provided by De Marinis (also Solinas 1995). Morandi 1999: 181 f., no. 30, who has a photo, notes that nu could be mu, epsilon could be alpha, and sigma could be iota; at the end he sees the upper part of another omicron, reading ]nerio?o[ and identifying his genitive ending variant -oi̯o < -oi̯so (cf. NO·1; also Morandi 2004).

Bibliography

Gambari & Colonna 1988	Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il bicchiere con iscrizione arcaica da Castelletto Ticino e l'adozione della scrittura nell'Italia nord-occidentale", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119–164.