CO·12

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	nap̣[ / ot[
Reading in original script:	] ]
Object:	CO·12 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	foot, outside
Frame:	?  (left: unknown, middle: all, right: none)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	5
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	2
Workmanship:	unknown
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): 294 Solinas 1995: 85 Morandi 2004: 159
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 627–629

Images

Potsherd CO·12 Rondineto with inscription CO·12 from Morandi 2004

Drawing of inscription CO·12 from Solinas 1995

Potsherd CO·12 Rondineto with inscription CO·12 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Inscription CO·12 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.18 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.6 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 280, tav. VIII.13a and b (photos), Solinas 1995: 354 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.159 (photo).

Written in two lines on the foot of the vessel, between and separated by frame lines. Beginning (?) of both lines preserved, but reading difficult due to "badly formed letters" (Whatmough PID: 102, no. 294, read ]pạ.[ | oṭ[). Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 193 f., no. 13 reads sinistroverse false boustrophedon ]ạto | ṇaṃ[ (alpha from traces in what is thus the lower area of the first line; Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 147 and 1990b: 109 with opposite order of lines nam[ | ]to). As per Whatmough with the two lines in the same orientation Solinas 1995: 353, no. 85 nap[ | ot?[ (also Morandi). Don't think TB's reading is negligible; trace of letter before is easier to explain, and cf. CO·14.

Palaeographical dating to the 5^th/4^th c. BC by Morandi.

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.