CO·11

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]tioiso ??
Reading in original script:	]?? [
Object:	CO·11 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	outside, rim
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	8
Number of words:	2
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–4th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'of °tios ?'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 292 Solinas 1995: 83 Morandi 2004: 158
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 627

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·11 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·11 Rondineto with inscription CO·11 from Morandi 2004

Drawing of inscription CO·11 from Solinas 1995

Potsherd CO·11 Rondineto with inscription CO·11 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.16 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.3 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18 h (drawing from Poggi), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 281, tav. IX.15 (photo), Solinas 1995: 353 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 181 (drawing = Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.158) and 202, tav. XV.3 (photo = Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.158).

Inscribed on the outside (Colonna) rim of the vessel; surface damaged, but letters largely complete. Originally read ]tarise[ (Poggi 1879: 311, no. 44, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 h, Giussani 1902: 45, Rhŷs 1913: 39, III.1.1h, Rhŷs 1914: 8, Whatmough PID: 101, no. 292); Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 195 f., no. 15 ]tiriso·ḳị[, (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 147, 167, Tibiletti Bruno 1989: 109, cf. Oberziner 1883: 145 tirisia). Reading ]tioiso ??[ from Gambari & Colonna 1986: 162, no. 8 (also Solinas 1995: 353, no. 83) – critical Morandi 1999: 181, no. 29 (]tiris??v?[, also 2004), but the third letter is by no means as clear a rho as in Morandi's drawing, and the second omicron seems fairly clear in TB's photo. Last two letters (beginning of second word) too damaged for identification.

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.
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.