CO·20
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| Reading in transliteration: | ]ṛp̣ịạ[ |
| Reading in original script: | ]    [
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| Object: | CO·20 Rondineto (unidentifiable) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 4 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched |
| 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: | '°rpia' (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 298 bis Solinas 1995: 91 Morandi 2004: 167 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 632 |
Images
 Drawing of inscription CO·20 from Morandi 2004
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 Potsherd CO·20 Rondineto with inscription CO·20 from Morandi 2004
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 Potsherd CO·20 Rondineto with inscription CO·20 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b
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Commentary
First published in Garovaglio 1883: 20, no. 4.
Images in Garovaglio 1883: fig. 4 (drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 283, tav. XI.24 (photo = Morandi 1999: 202, tav. XV.2 = Morandi 2004: 800, tav. XXIII.167), Morandi 1999: 180 (drawing = Morandi 2004: 634, fig. 21.167).
Remains of four letters, written in a tight curve and meeting in the centre, on the preserved half of the foot. Whatmough PID: 103, 298 bis read ]unia[ (from Garovaglio's drawing); ]ṛp̣ịạ[ from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 203 f., no. 24 (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 147, Morandi 1999: 180, no. 28). Exact form of alpha unknown; considered complete at the end by Morandi; uncertain TB and Solinas.
Palaeographical dating (alpha) to the 5th/4th century BC by Morandi.
