CO·26

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ụts
Reading in original script:	[
Object:	CO·26 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	foot, outside
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	unknown [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 94 h Morandi 2004: 173
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 636

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·26 from Solinas 1995

Potsherd CO·26 Rondineto with inscription CO·26 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 199, no. 18.

Images in Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.32 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.11 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 281, tav. IX.18 (photo).

Written on the foot of the vessel; sigma and St. Andrew's cross are clear, but the thrird letter, of which only a tip is left, could be alpha or upsilon depending on the orientation. TB has sinistroverse stạ[ or stị[, Solinas 1995: 359, no. 94 h dextroverse stụ[ (also Morandi), but the opposite direction with final sigma is equally possible.

Bibliography

Garovaglio 1877	Alfonso Garovaglio, "Qualificazioni delle figure contenute nelle tav. I.a III.a IV.a V.a", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 35–39.