CO·31
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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: | Golasecca III A [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 5th–early 4th c. BC [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, which can only refer to graffito d = CO·37 ki, since all the other graffiti listed there are accounted for. More likely is that this inscription is the same as 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. In any case, apparently a doublet, if not a triplet.
