CO·4
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Reading in transliteration: | ]ạklẹ[ |
Reading in original script: | ]![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Object: | CO·4 Rondineto (unidentifiable) |
Position: | outside |
Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
Number of letters: | 4 |
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: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 287 Solinas 1995: 78 Morandi 2004: 151 |
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Sources: | Morandi 2004: 624 |
Images
Commentary
First published in Barelli 1877b: 102.
Images in Barelli 1877b: tav. I.14 (drawing by Giuseppe Massuero), Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. I.20 (drawing = Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 284, tav. XII.26), Gamurrini 1880: tav. I.2c (drawing copied from Massuero), Oberziner 1883: tav. XVIII.4 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18c (drawing copied from Massuero), Morandi 2004: 628, fig. 20.151 (drawing copied from Garovaglio).
Inscribed below what Garovaglio 1877: 36, no. 21, considers to be the outside rim of the vessel. Older reading ]uklk[ based on Massuero's drawing in Poggi 1879: 311, no. 42 (also Gamurrini 1880: 1, no. 2c, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 c, Giussani 1902: 44 f., no. 14, Rhŷs 1913: 38 f., no. III.1.1c, Rhŷs 1914: 8, Whatmough PID: 100); reading ]akle[ on the basis of Garovaglio's drawing by Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 205, no. 26 (also Solinas and Morandi).
See also Oberziner 1883: 145.
Bibliography
Barelli 1877 | Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32. |
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Barelli 1877b | Vincenzo Barelli, "II. Como", Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità (1877), 101–106. |