CO·68

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: pelesị?[
Reading in original script: P dE dL dE dS sI s?[

Object: CO·68 Como (unidentifiable)
Position: outside
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters: 7
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: fragmentary

Archaeological culture: unknown [from object]
Date of inscription: unknown [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: prob. Celtic
Meaning: 'Peles['

Alternative sigla: Solinas 1995: 63
Morandi 2004: 199

Sources: Morandi 2004: 649

Commentary

Image in Tibiletti Bruno 1977b: 114 (photo).

Inscribed on the bottom or wall of the fragmentary vessel. peles is clear, though the lowest bit of sigma is missing; the identification of the next letter, of which only the upper part of a hasta is left, as iota is indicated by the closeness of the next trace, also the top tip of a hasta, for which Tibiletti Bruno 1977b: 114–116 suggests kappa, lambda or St. Andrew's cross. See also Tibiletti Bruno 1990b: 111 f.

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