CO·13

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]?rḳịmụ[
Reading in original script:	]?[
Object:	CO·13 Rondineto (bowl)
Position:	bottom, inside
Orientation:	0°
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	prob. North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	2.5 cm0.984 in <br />
Number of letters:	5
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	advanced 5th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 295 Solinas 1995: 86 Morandi 2004: 160
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 629

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·13 from Morandi 2004

Potsherd CO·13 Rondineto with inscription CO·13 from Morandi 2004

Garovaglio's drawing of CO·13 Rondineto with inscription CO·13 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Potsherd CO·13 Rondineto with inscription CO·13 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Garovaglio 1879: tav. II c (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 278, tav. VI.8a), Rhŷs 1914: pl. III (photo), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 278, tav. VI.8b (photo = Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.160), Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.160 (drawing).

Inscribed on the inside of the patera across two fragments, between frame lines. The larger fragment was seen in the museum by Rhŷs 1913: 39, III.1.3, who could not quite make a reading; Rhŷs 1914: 9 f. tried an upside-down dextroverse reading ]rkiumu[ with inverted mu. Sinistroverse ]rḳịmu[ from Whatmough PID: 102, no. 295 (also Solinas), who calls ki "at least doubtful", and "the whole [...] altogether problematical, though it can hardly be mere ornamentation". Referring to Garovaglio's drawing of both fragments, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 189 f., no. 8 adds a iota at the end ()rkimui), despite the line being decidedly oblique (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 147, Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 109 f.). Lejeune 1971: 72 f., n. 251, noting the short oblique trace in the upper area before rho, infers upsilon (]ụrkimu[i], cf. Morandi ]?rkimu[, who prefers epsilon to compare bergimus). The unidentifiable letter after rho (cf. CO·14) together with the uninterrupted zig-zag (cf. NO·1 and, with Whatmough, TI·1) make the inscription somewhat dubious – possibly pseudo-script? But cf. TI·34.3 ]rkomui.

Bibliography

Garovaglio 1879	Alfonso Garovaglio, "Rondineto, altre scoperte", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 15 (1879), 18-21.