CO·3

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: ]ouki?[
Reading in original script: ]?I sK sU2 sO3 s[

Object: CO·3 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position: outside, rim
Orientation:
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height: 2.4 cm0.945 in <br />
Number of letters: 5
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: fragmentary

Archaeological culture: Golasecca III A [from object]
Date of inscription: 5th–early 4th c. BC [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: perhaps Celtic
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 286
Solinas 1995: 77
Morandi 2004: 150

Sources: Morandi 2004: 624

Images

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877b: 102. Examined for LexLep on 2nd April 2025.

Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.13 (drawing by Giuseppe Massuero), Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.21 (drawing), Gamurrini 1880: tav. I.2b (drawing copied from Massuero), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.7 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18b (drawing copied from Massuero), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 286, tav. XIV.37 (photo), Solinas 1995: 349 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.150 (drawing).

Inscribed quite neatly across the full height of the outside rim of the vessel (length of remains 5 cm). The first reading ]θuki[ by Poggi 1879: 311, no. 48 (also Gamurrini 1880: 1, no. 2b, Oberziner 1883: 145) was corrected to ]ouki[ (or ]olki[) by Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 b (also Giussani 1902: 44 f., no. 14, Rhŷs 1913: 38 f., no. III.1.1b, Rhŷs 1914: 8, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 212 f., no. 37). Whatmough PID: 100 "noticed a clear punct between u and k", which does not exist; the same applies to the "linea guida" below the letters seen by Morandi (who probably means the bend of the rim). After iota, the remains of a hasta can be seen in the lower area.

The sequence )ouki?( may be part of a Celtic personal name; see the word page.

See also Barelli 1877: 4.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Barelli 1877 Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.
Barelli 1877b Vincenzo Barelli, "II. Como", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1877), 101–106.