CO·21

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ṇ : ṣulọiḳei : [
Reading in original script:	][
Variant reading:	]ṃ suloikei (Tibiletti Bruno)
Object:	CO·21 Rondineto (slab)
Position:	front
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script
Number of letters:	9
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	carved
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th / 4th century BC [from object]
Type:	prob. funerary
Language:	Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	"(...) to Suloigis (...)"
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 24 Solinas 1995: 75 Morandi 2004: 168
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 632-633 & 634 (fig. 21.168) & 801 (pl. XXIV.168) Solinas 1995: 348 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 181-182

Commentary

Very similar to the inscription of Prestino, nearly same size and shape of the stone and the letters (Rittatore Vonwiller 1968: p. 471)

• Garovaglio 1879: p. 19, nr. g, pl. 2 fig. g
• Giussani 1902: pp. 45-46
• Ferri 1967
• Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: pp. 213-216, nr. 38, Tav. XV
• Tibiletti Bruno 1989: p. 91 (chronology of alphabetical signs)
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299, Addenda, p. 630
• Solinas 1995: p. 348, n. 75

Bibliography

Ferri 1967	Silvio Ferri, "Esigenze Archeologiche VIII", Studi Orientali e Classici 16 (1967), 431-432.
Garovaglio 1879	Alfonso Garovaglio, "Rondineto, altre scoperte", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 15 (1879), 18-21.