CO·18

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	ụọ[
Reading in original script:	[
Object:	CO·18 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	inside
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Script:	prob. North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	2
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th–early 4th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 94 o Morandi 2004: 165
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 631

Images

Potsherd CO·18 Rondineto with inscription CO·18 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877.

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.28 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.15 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 286, tav. XIV.33 (photo).

Parts of two (?) letters preserved, read sinistroverse ]ọu or ]ṛu by Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 210 f., no. 33 (also Solinas); Morandi dextroverse uo[.

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.