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:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	unknown [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.11 (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

Garovaglio 1877	Alfonso Garovaglio, "Qualificazioni delle figure contenute nelle tav. I.a III.a IV.a V.a", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 35–39.