CO·1
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| Reading in transliteration: | kut |
| Reading in original script: |   
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| Variant reading: | ku
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| Object: | CO·1 Gravedona (pitcher) |
| Position: | bottom, outside |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 2–3 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | unknown |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 2nd–1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | prob. Celtic |
| Meaning: | abbreviation (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 278 Solinas 1995: 61 Morandi 2004: 144 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 618 |
Images
 Drawing of inscription CO·1 from Barelli 1879b
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Commentary
First published in Barelli 1879b: 27. Lost.
Image in Barelli 1879b: 27 (drawing).
Inscribed "sull'emisfero inferiore" of the hydria, apparently complete despite the damage sustained by the vessel. Barelli speaks of "due lettere", but his drawing shows, beside kappa and upsilon, a small St. Andrew's cross under the oblique hasta of upsilon. The reading kut goes back to Whatmough PID: 96 (based on the drawing; also Pisani 1964: 283 f., no. 120 I, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146, and Gambari & Colonna 1988: 134, who compare it to VA·32), but ku seems equally possible. Both may be abbreviations of personal names, see further on the word pages.
Bibliography
| Barelli 1879b | Vincenzo Barelli, "Recenti scoperte", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 16 (1879), 23–33. |
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