CO·8

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ṇẹṛ[
Reading in original script:	][
Object:	CO·8 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	unknown
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	1.9 cm0.748 in <br />
Number of letters:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–early 4th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 291 Solinas 1995: 82 Morandi 2004: 155
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 626

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·8 from Solinas 1995

Garovaglio's drawing of CO·8 Rondineto with inscription CO·8 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Potsherd CO·8 Rondineto with inscription CO·8 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Garovaglio 1878: tav. I.17 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 277, tav. V.5a), Bergamaschi 1878: ? (drawing = Barelli 1878c: tav. VII.?), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 277, tav. V.5b (photo), Solinas 1995: 352 (drawing).

Upper parts of all letters missing; a frame line below the letters. Originally read ]ial[ (Poggi 1879: 311, no. 47, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 g, Giussani 1902: 45, Rhŷs 1913: 39, III.1.1g, Rhŷs 1914: 8 (uncertain), Whatmough PID: 101, no. 291); Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 186 f., no. 5 ]p̣eṛ[ or ]ṇeṛ[ (also Morandi). Pi or nu is clear from the trace of a bar between first and second letter; TB's epsilon seems to be based on the height of the first letter, since only two bars are preserved (cf. Solinas 1995: 352, no. 82 ]ṇaṛ[). The third letter could also be lambda.

The "second piece" mentioned by Whatmough (sinistroverse) is the present one, seen by him; the dextroverse inscription is a chimera based on Garovaglio's mirrored drawing (TB).

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.
Barelli 1878b	Vincenzo Barelli, "IV. Rondineto", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1878), 201–224.