CO·70

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	ta[
Reading in original script:	]
Object:	CO·70 Carate Urio (bowl)
Position:	bottom, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	2.5 cm0.984 in <br />
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 c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	prob. Celtic
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 146
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 619

Images

Drawing of CO·70 Carate Urio with inscription CO·70 from Bertolone 1957

Commentary

First properly published in Morandi. Examined for LexLep on 1^st April 2025.

Images in Bertolone 1957: tav. 38.2 (drawing), De Marinis 1981: tav. 69.7.

Inscribed on the outside bottom of the patera (length of remains 4 cm); St Andrew's cross is complete, alpha is damaged by a break. More letters may have followed, but an abbreviation is perhaps more likely given the typology of the document (cf. CO·74). See also De Marinis 1981: 117, 281.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Bertolone 1957	Mario Bertolone, "Ancora sulla ceramica del Golasecca III A", Sibrium 3 (1956–1957), 55–71.
De Marinis 1981	Raffaele De Marinis, "Il periodo Golasecca III A in Lombardia", Studi Archeologici 1 (1981), 41–299.