CO·12
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| Reading in transliteration: | nap̣[ / ot[ |
| Reading in original script: | ]   ]  
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| Object: | CO·12 Rondineto (unidentifiable) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Frame: | ? (left: unknown, middle: all, right: none)
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| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 5 |
| Number of words: | 2 |
| Number of lines: | 2 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | 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: | perhaps Celtic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 294 Solinas 1995: 85 Morandi 2004: 159 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 627–629 |
Images
 Potsherd CO·12 Rondineto with inscription CO·12 from Morandi 2004
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 Drawing of inscription CO·12 from Solinas 1995
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 Potsherd CO·12 Rondineto with inscription CO·12 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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 Inscription CO·12 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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Commentary
First published in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877.
Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.18 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.6 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 280, tav. VIII.13a and b (photos), Solinas 1995: 354 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.159 (photo).
Written in two lines on the foot of the vessel, between and separated by frame lines. Beginning (?) of both lines preserved, but reading difficult due to "badly formed letters" (Whatmough PID: 102, no. 294, read ]pạ.[ | oṭ[). Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 193 f., no. 13 reads sinistroverse false boustrophedon ]ạto | ṇaṃ[ (alpha from traces in what is thus the lower area of the first line; Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 147 and 1990b: 109 with opposite order of lines nam[ | ]to). As per Whatmough with the two lines in the same orientation Solinas 1995: 353, no. 85 nap[ | ot?[ (also Morandi). Don't think TB's reading is negligible; trace of letter before 
is easier to explain, and cf. CO·14.
Bibliography
| Barelli 1877 | Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32. |
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