CO·16

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ịṣo
Reading in original script:	?[
Object:	CO·16 Rondineto (bowl)
Position:	foot, outside
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: top, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	2 cm0.787 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:	prob. mark of manufacturer
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'of Plios'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 297 Solinas 1995: 89 Morandi 2004: 163
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 630 f.

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·16 from Morandi 2004

Garovaglio's drawing of CO·16 Rondineto with inscription CO·16 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Potsherd CO·16 Rondineto with inscription CO·16 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Garovaglio 1883: fig. 17 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.4a), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 276, tav. IV.4b (photo), Morandi 2004: 634, fig. 21.163 (drawing).

Inscribed before firing on the outside foot of the bowl. Omicron is complete, but only the upper parts of iota and sigma and the end of the upper frame line are preserved; sigma could be (as maybe in CO·15) or (as in CO·6). Reading (and writing direction) based on comparison with CO·6 plioiso by Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 184–186, no. 4 (also Tibiletti Bruno 1969: 998 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 107).

See also Gambari & Colonna 1988: 162, no. 6, Motta 2000: 208.

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.