CO·21

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: ]ṇ : ṣulọiḳei : [
Reading in original script: ]separator2 sI sE sK4 sI sO2 sL sU sspace sS dseparator3 sN s[
Variant reading: ]ṃ suloikei (Tibiletti Bruno)

Object: CO·21 Rondineto (slab)
Position: front
Frame: ?top and bottomtop and bottom?  (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

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Commentary

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

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.
Giussani 1902 A[ntonio] Giussani, "L' iscrizione nord-etrusca di Tesserete e le altre iscrizioni pre-romane del nostro territorio", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia e Antica Diocesi di Como 46 (1902), 25–67.