CO·2
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| Reading in transliteration: | ]ạḳụṛ[ |
| Reading in original script: | ]    [
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| Object: | CO·2 Rondineto (unidentifiable) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 3 cm1.181 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 4 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | damaged, fragmentary |
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| Archaeological culture: | Golasecca III A [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 5th–early 4th c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | perhaps Celtic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 285 Solinas 1995: 76 Morandi 2004: 149 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 623 f. |
Images
 Drawing of inscription CO·2 from Morandi 2004
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 Potsherd CO·2 Rondineto with inscription CO·2 from Morandi 2004
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 Potsherd CO·2 Rondineto with inscription CO·2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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Commentary
First published in Barelli 1877b: 102. Examined for LexLep on 2nd April 2025.
Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.12 (drawing by Giuseppe Massuero), Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.19 (drawing), Gamurrini 1880: tav. I.2a (drawing copied from Massuero), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.2 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18a (drawing copied from Massuero), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 283, tav. XI.25 (photo), Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.149 (drawing) and 799, tav. XXII.149 (photo).
Inscribed on the foot along the rim (length of the remains ca. 6 cm). All four preseved letters are damaged, but identifiable; the reading ]akur[ was already given by Poggi 1879: 311, no. 41 (also Gamurrini 1880: 1, no. 2a, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 a, Giussani 1902: 44 f., no. 14, Rhŷs 1913: 38 f., no. III.1.1a, Rhŷs 1914: 8, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 204, no. 25).
The sequence )akur( may be part of a Celtic personal name; see the word page.
See also Oberziner 1883: 145.
Bibliography
| Barelli 1877 | Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32. |
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| Barelli 1877b | Vincenzo Barelli, "II. Como", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1877), 101–106. |
