CO·31
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| Inscription | |
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| Reading in transliteration: | v?(?)[ |
| Reading in original script: |  ?(?)[
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| Variant reading: | a?(?)[ ?(?)[
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| Object: | CO·31 Rondineto (unidentifiable) |
| Position: | outside, wall |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 2 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | unknown [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | perhaps Celtic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 178 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 637 |
Commentary
First published in Tibiletti Bruno 1977b: 102–104, no. 84.
Image in Tibiletti Bruno 1977b: 103 (photo).
One complete and one or two partial letters preserved on the fragment. TB reads aịṣ[, Morandi va[. Whether the first letter is alpha or waw depends on the dating; Morandi gives the 5th/4th century, but that is probably based on palaeography. Morandi cites PID: 103 f., note XVI, but all the graffiti listed there are accounted for – does he mean that this inscription is the anonymous one one which Whatmough lists on p. 103 sub no. 298 ]ais[ (CO·17)? If so, Whatmough must have made a mistake in not flagging this graffito as one of the ones he saw in the museum rather than in Garovaglio's tables.
