CO·21 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	slab
Material:	stone
Size:	length of fragment 41 cm, width 15 cm, thickness 12.5 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:	unknown
Site:	Rondineto (fraction of: Como, Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 10.80" N, 9° 3' 36.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1879
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	none
Inscription:	CO·21 (]ṇ:ṣulọiḳei:[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 24 Solinas 1995: 75 Morandi 2004: 168
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 632 f.

Images

Slab CO·21 Rondineto with inscription CO·21 from Morandi 2004

Slab CO·21 Rondineto with inscription CO·21 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Garovaglio 1879: tav. II g, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 287, tav. XV.38 (photo = Morandi 2004: 801, tav. XXIV.168).

Fragment of a sandstone slab found at Rondineto "vicino ad una tomba" according to Barelli 1879: 15 f. via Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 78–85, who goes on to discuss the find circumstances and concludes that the slab was part of an architrave in a building similar to that to which the Prestino stone belonged, but later (see the inscription page on dating). On the similarities with Prestino (material, shape and size) also Rittatore Vonwiller 1968: 471. Certainly broken on the right, maybe complete on the left (Tibiletti Bruno 1966b: 283 f., Conway PID: Addenda, 630). See also Garovaglio 1879: 19 g.

Bibliography

Barelli 1879	Vincenzo Barelli, "Altre scoperte preromane in Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 15 (1879), 14–18.
De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.