CO·6

Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	p̣lioiso
Reading in original script:

Object:	CO·6 Rondineto (bowl)
Position:	foot, outside
Frame:	? (left: none, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	2.5 cm0.984 in <br />
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched into leather-hard clay
Condition:	complete, damaged

Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A [from object]
Date of inscription:	5^th–early 4^th c. BC [from object]

Type:	prob. mark of manufacturer
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'of Plios'

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 289 Solinas 1995: 80 Motta 2000: 14 Morandi 2004: 153

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 625

Images

Drawing of CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Gambari & Colonna 1988	Drawing of inscription CO·6 from Morandi 2004	Potsherd CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Morandi 2004	Garovaglio's drawing of CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b	Bergamaschi's drawing of CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
Potsherd CO·6 Rondineto with inscription CO·6 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Images in Garovaglio 1878: tav. III.12 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 274, tav. II.2a (as original) and b (corrected by mirroring), Bergamaschi 1878: ? (drawing = Barelli 1878c: tav. XII.13 = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 275, tav. III.2c), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18 e (drawing from Poggi), Rhŷs 1914: pl. III (photo), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 275, tav. III.2d (photo), De Marinis 1986: 76 (photo), Gambari & Colonna 1988: 161, fig. 24 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 183 (drawing = in essence Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.153) and 203, tav. XVI.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: 799, tav. XXII.153), Stifter 2020: ? (photo).

Poggi 1879: 311, no. 46 lioiso, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 e lioiso, Giussani 1902: 45, Rhŷs 1913: 39, III.1.1e, Rhŷs 1914: 8, 10–23 saw the trace before lambda but ran with elioiso, Whatmough PID: 101, no. 289 ]plioiso, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 175–179, no. 2 complete in front (already Rhys), also Tibiletti Bruno 1969 optative (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 107 f.), Gambari & Colonna 1988: 161, no. 4 genitive, Lejeune 1990: 70, no. 15, Morandi 1999: 183 f., no. 32 on the form of sigma (may have had one more bar on top actually).

Barelli 1878	Vincenzo Barelli, "Nuove scoperte in Rondineto, comune di Breccia dal luglio 1877 in poi", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 13 (1878), 1–27.
Barelli 1878b	Vincenzo Barelli, "IV. Rondineto", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1878), 201–224.
Campanile 1969	Enrico Campanile, "Su una Presunta Forma Ottativale Epicorica a Comum", Studi e Saggi Linguistici 9 (1969), 211-215.
De Marinis 1986	Raffaele De Marinis, "Lingua e alfabeto", in: Various authors, Como fra Etruschi e Celti, Como: Società Archeologica Comense 1986. (Catalogo della mostra), 73–76.