CO·15

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ọịṣ[
Reading in original script:	]?[
Object:	CO·15 Rondineto (bowl)
Position:	foot, outside
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, 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:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched into leather-hard clay
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 1, Golasecca III A 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'of Plios'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 296 bis Solinas 1995: 88 Morandi 2004: 162
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 630

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·15 from Morandi 2004

Garovaglio's first drawing of CO·15 Rondineto with inscription CO·15 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Garovaglio's second drawing of CO·15 Rondineto with inscription CO·15 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Bergamaschi's drawing of CO·15 Rondineto with inscription CO·15 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Potsherd CO·15 Rondineto with inscription CO·15 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.41 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.3a), Garovaglio 1878: tav. III.16 (drawing [mirrored] = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.3b and 3c [corrected]), Bergamaschi 1878: ? (drawing = Barelli 1878c: tav. XIII.22 = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.3d), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.6 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.3e (photo), Morandi 2004: 634, fig. 21.162 (drawing).

The lower parts of three letters and a frame line below them preserved on the fragment. Read ]oi·[ with a punct by Whatmough PID: 102, no. 296 bis; reading ]ois[ based on comparison with CO·6 plioiso by Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 179–184, no. 3 (also Tibiletti Bruno 1969: 998 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 107). Form of sigma unclear, probably or ; in any case not the same as in CO·6.

See also Gambari & Colonna 1988: 161, no. 5, Motta 2000: 208.

Bibliography

Barelli 1878b	Vincenzo Barelli, "IV. Rondineto", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1878), 201–224.
Bergamaschi 1878	Gianni (?) Bergamaschi, "Tavole XI, XII, XIII", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 13 (1878).
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 e V.a", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 35–39.
Garovaglio 1878	Alfonso Garovaglio, "Qualificazioni delle figure contenute nelle tavole III.a e IV.a", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 13 (1878), 36–37.