CO·11
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| Reading in transliteration: | ]tiọisọ ??[ |
| Reading in original script: | ]??     [
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| Object: | CO·11 Rondineto (unidentifiable) |
| Position: | outside, rim |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 1.7–2 cm0.669 in <br />0.787 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 8 |
| Number of words: | 2 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | damaged, fragmentary |
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| Archaeological culture: | Golasecca III A [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 5th–early 4th c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'of °tios ?' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 292 Solinas 1995: 83 Morandi 2004: 158 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 627 |
Images
 Drawing of inscription CO·11 from Morandi 2004
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 Potsherd CO·11 Rondineto with inscription CO·11 from Morandi 2004
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 Drawing of inscription CO·11 from Solinas 1995
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 Potsherd CO·11 Rondineto with inscription CO·11 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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Commentary
First published in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877. Examined for LexLep on 2nd April 2025.
Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.16 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.3 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18 h (drawing from Poggi), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 281, tav. IX.15 (photo), Solinas 1995: 353 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 181 (drawing = Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.158) and 202, tav. XV.3 (photo = Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.158).
Inscribed on the outside rim of the vessel (cf. CO·3); the surface is damaged especially toward the left side of the fragment, and the letters are disturbed by numerous abrasions and marks. Many lines, both intentional and unintentional, have been traced with small black dots. Originally read ]tarise[ (Poggi 1879: 311, no. 44, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 h, Giussani 1902: 45, Rhŷs 1913: 39, III.1.1h, Rhŷs 1914: 8, Whatmough PID: 101, no. 292); Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 195 f., no. 15 amended to ]tiriso·ḳị[, (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 147, 167, Tibiletti Bruno 1989: 109, cf. Oberziner 1883: 145 tirisia). The reading of the first sequence as a form with a genitive ending )tioiso goes back to Gambari & Colonna 1988: 162, no. 8 (also Solinas 1995: 353, no. 83). Indeed tiois is fairly clear; the area after sigma is disturbed by abrasions, but omicron in the upper area (already included in TB's reading) is plausible. Critical Morandi 1999: 181, no. 29 (]tiris??v?[, also 2004), but the third letter is by no means as clear a rho as in his drawing. After a small gap and possibly a separator 
as per TB, the remains of two smaller letters seem to be preserved below a chipped-off bit of surface – possibly epsilon 
or Morandi's waw 
(not kappa as in TB's reading), followed by the lower part of a hasta.
If the reading is correct, the inscription provides another attestation of the archaic genitiv ending -oi̯so from Golaseccan Como in addition to the plioiso-group; see further on the word page.
Bibliography
| Barelli 1877 | Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32. |
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