CO·9

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	p̣ạ[
Reading in original script:	]
Variant reading:	ḷụ[ [

Object:	CO·9 Rondineto (bowl)
Position:	inside, wall
Frame:	? (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: none)
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	3 cm1.181 in <br />
Number of letters:	2
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	damaged, fragmentary

Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A [from object]
Date of inscription:	5^th–early 4^th c. BC [from object]

Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown

Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 94 a Morandi 2004: 156

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 626

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·9 from Solinas 1995

Potsherd CO·9 Rondineto with inscription CO·9 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877. Examined for LexLep on 2^nd April 2025.

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.40 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.14 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 277, tav. V.6 (photo), Solinas 1995: 358 (drawing).

Inscribed on what seems to be the inside wall of a patera, starting at the rim and running inward; only one frame line and parts of the first two letters are preserved, but the presence of a second frame line can be inferred from comparison with other graffiti from Rondineto. Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 187 f., no. 6 reads sinistroverse p̣a[ or ṿa[, while Morandi prefers the reading with opposite orientation lu[ as in CO·10 ("in ductus sinistrorso", but surely dextroverse?). With regard to the overdrawn line of the first letter's hasta, TB's orientation seems more likely to us; the exact form of alpha cannot be determined. The placement of the inscription wth the frame is similar to that of the aev-inscriptions CO·53 and CO·54, but the letters would have had to be exceptionally tall if they had been (already upright as in CO·54) and . More likely is yet another abbreviation of a personal name.