CO·21 Rondineto

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Object
Classification:	slab
Material:	stone
Size:	length of fragment 41 cm, width 15 cm, thickness 12.5 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A
Date:	5th–early 4th c. BC
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Rondineto
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 10.80" N, 9° 3' 36.00" E [from site]
Find date:	1879
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	none
Inscription:	CO·21 (]ṇ:ṣulọiḳei:[)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 299 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 24 Solinas 1995: 75 Morandi 2004: 168
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 632 f.

Images

Slab CO·21 Rondineto with inscription CO·21 from Morandi 2004

Slab CO·21 Rondineto with inscription CO·21 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Barelli 1879/Garovaglio 1879: tav. II.g (drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 287, tav. XV.38 (photo = Morandi 2004: 801, tav. XXIV.168).

Fragment of a sandstone slab (Garovaglio 1879: 19 g), found at Rondineto "vicino ad una tomba" (see Barelli 1879: 16, with a typo "d" for "g"); cf. Luraschi et al. 1969: 46 and Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 78–85, who discusses the find circumstances and concludes that the slab was part of an architrave in a building similar to that to which the Prestino stone belonged, but of later date. Generic dating to G III A above is given in accordance with the overall dating of the Rondineto graffiti (De Marinis & Motta 1991: 214); see further on the inscription page. On the similarities with Prestino (material, shape and size) also Rittatore Vonwiller 1968: 471. Certainly broken on the right, maybe complete on the left (Tibiletti Bruno 1966b: 283 f., Conway PID: Addenda, 630).

Bibliography

Barelli 1879	Vincenzo Barelli, "Altre scoperte preromane in Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 15 (1879), 14–18.
De Marinis & Motta 1991	Raffaele C. De Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Una nuova iscrizione lepontica su pietra da Mezzovico (Lugano)", Sibrium 21 (1990–1991), 201–225.