BG·43
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| Reading in transliteration: | sur |
| Reading in original script: |   
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| Object: | BG·43 Bergamo (pot) |
| Position: | outside, wall |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 3 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched into leather-hard clay |
| Condition: | damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 5th c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | perhaps Celtic |
| Meaning: | abbreviation (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | none |
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| Sources: | Casini & Motta 2018: 122 no. 7 |
Commentary
First published in Casini & Motta 2018: 122, no. 7.
Images in Casini & Motta 2018: fig. 3.6 (photo and drawing).
Lightly scrached and partly abraded. Sigma especially is hardly legible, but Casini and Motta prefer a reading s to a. At least one more faint line is visible before sigma; it is not certain whether the inscription is complete. If the reading is correct, the sequence is likely an abbreviation of a personal name, see the word page and cf. sur in VA·12.
Bibliography
| Casini & Motta 2018 | Stefania Casini, Filippo Motta, "Iscrizioni vascolari celtiche a Bergamo", Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 26 (2018), 115–128. |
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