CO·1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	kut
Reading in original script:
Object:	CO·1 Gravedona (pitcher)
Position:	bottom, outside
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	prob. North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	2–3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–1st c. BC (?) [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 278 Solinas 1995: 61 Morandi 2004: 144
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 618 no. 144

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1879b: 27.

Image in Barelli 1879b: 27 (drawing).

Three dextroverse letters inscribed "sull'emisfero inferiore" (Barelli). Whatmough PID: 96 reads kut from Barelli's drawing, but the latter shows a very small St. Andrew's cross under the oblique hasta of upsilon – unintentional?

Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146 suggests that the sequence could be an abbreviation of the PN "Cut(t)ius" rather than the Etr. noun qutun (type of vessel); Gambari & Colonna 1988: 134 compare it to VA·32.

See also Pisani 1964: 283, no. 120 I.

Bibliography

Barelli 1879b	Vincenzo Barelli, "Recenti scoperte", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 16 (1879), 23–33.