CO·32

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	a?[
Reading in original script:	?[
Object:	CO·32 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	bottom, inside
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
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): 293 Solinas 1995: 84
Sources:	Solinas 1995: 353

Images

Garovaglio's drawing of CO·32 Rondineto with inscription CO·32 from Solinas 1995

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877.

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.17 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 288, tav. XVI.42 = Solinas 1995: 353), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.10 (drawing copied from Garovaglio).

Inscribed on what appears to be the inside bottom/foot of the vessel. From Garovaglio's drawing, Whatmough PID: 101, no. 293 read ai[ or al[, Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 217 f., no. 42 gives multiple options for the second letter, of which St. Andrew's cross and upsilon are the most plausible. Considering the dating, waw may be more likely for the first letter.

See also Oberziner 1883: 145.

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.