CO·14
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| Reading in transliteration: | mei / va |
| Reading in original script: |   /   
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| Object: | CO·14 Rondineto (unidentifiable) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 1 cm0.394 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 5 |
| Number of lines: | 2 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | unknown [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | perhaps Celtic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 296 Solinas 1995: 87 Morandi 2004: 161 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 629 f. |
Images
 Drawing of inscription CO·14 from Morandi 2004
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 Potsherd CO·14 Rondineto with inscription CO·14 from Morandi
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 Drawing of inscription CO·14 from Solinas 1995
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 Garovaglio's drawing of inscription CO·14 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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 Tracing of inscription CO·14 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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Commentary
Images in Garovaglio 1883: fig. 1 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 285, tav. XIII.28a), Rhŷs 1914: pl. II (photo), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 285, tav. XIII.28b (tracing), Solinas 1995: 354 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 179 (drawing = Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.161) and 202, tav. XV.1 (photo = Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.161).
Two groups/lines of letters inscribed on the foot of the vessel. Seen in the museum by Rhŷs 1913: 39, III.1.2, who read two words written sinistroverse in false boustrophedon piuai | aa 'Aa for Biua' (also Rhŷs 1913: 8 f.). Whatmough PID: 102, no. 296 p·nại | aḷ, yet again with a "certain" surprise punct, and notes that the last two letters in line 1 are "apparently conjoint"; new reading by Conway in 1930 pnei | aa or vv (p. 630). Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 207 f., no. 28 reads mẹḳị | ṿạ or mạḳị | ṿạ, taken as one word (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 147), observing that the "conjoint" letters in line 1 (read as a ligature) are reminiscent of dubious ki in CO·13. Morandi 1999: 179 f., no. 27 also reads one word, but without ligature meiva (also Morandi 2004), despite noting that the two letters in line 2 are identical (cf. Solinas 1995: 354, no. 87 ṃẹịạạ).
Dated to the 4th c. BC because of upright alpha by Morandi 1999: 179, which is hardly reliable considering the doubtful reading.
