BG·22
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| Reading in transliteration: | c̣iami |
| Reading in original script: |    
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| Variant reading: | p̣iami
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| Object: | BG·22 Verdello (bowl) |
| Position: | bottom, outside |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Number of letters: | 5 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D 2 [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Solinas 1995: 37 Morandi 2004: 225 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 664 f. no. 225 |
Images
 Inscription BG·22 from Morandi
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 Detail of BG·22 Verdello with inscription BG·22 from Solinas
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Commentary
First published in Solinas 1995: 335, no. 37.
Images in Tizzoni 1981: tav. 13 f (drawing), Solinas 1995: LXVII c (photo), Morandi 2003: 133, fig. 18 (photo = Morandi 2007: 299, fig. 297), Morandi 2004: 667, fig. 26.225 (drawing).
Inscribed on the bottom of the patera, just below the edge between bottom and wall; heavily damaged by abrasions. Solinas and Morandi agree about the reading of letters 2–5, but the first letter is read as pi by Solinas, as Latin by Morandi (also 2003: 132 f., no. 14, Morandi 2007: 299, no. 26). Solinas' pi presumably includes a bar which may be a chimera created by abrasion spots, but is depicted in Tizzoni's drawing; Morandi's takes the very slight bend in the hasta of putative pi into account. The appearance of Latin fits with the dating of the inscription and the other Latinised letters of the inscription: primarily mu and arguably alpha with two bars, which is more similar to Latin 
than the younger Lepontic form 
(cf. BG·29, BG·31, BG·36.1 and BG·36.2).
As proposed by both Solinas and Morandi, the form is most likely a personal name in the genitive; ciami finds comparanda, piami does not (see the word pages).
