BS·10

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	ka
Reading in original script:	unknown
Object:	BS·10 Gottolengo (bowl)
Position:	outside
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	unknown
Number of letters:	2
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1 [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–early 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	prob. Celtic, unknown
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 42 Morandi 2004: 239
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 674

Commentary

First mentioned in Tibiletti Bruno 1973: 166, n. 68.

Images in Frontini 1985: tav. 9.1 (drawing).

Inscribed on the outside bottom of the patera; the reading appears to be unambiguous (see also Gambari 1999: 389, De Marinis & Motta 2007: 139). The sequence ka, which occurs repeatedly in Cisalpine Celtic graffiti, is most likely an abbreviation of a personal name (see the word page).

Bibliography

De Marinis & Motta 2007	Raffaele C. de Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Iscrizioni del II e I secolo a.C. dal territorio insubre e cenomane", in: Francesca Moradini, Marina Volonté (eds), Contributi di archeologia in memoria di Mario Mirabella Roberti. Cavriana 15–16 ottobre 2005 [= Annali Benacensi 13–14], Brescia: 2007, 135–160.