CO·9

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	lu[
Reading in original script:	[
Object:	CO·9 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	foot, outside
Frame:	??  (left: unknown, middle: bottom, right: unknown)
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
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 1, Golasecca III A 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	5th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 94 a Morandi 2004: 156
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 626

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·9 from Solinas 1995

Potsherd CO·9 Rondineto with inscription CO·9 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

Images in Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.40 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.14 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 277, tav. V.6 (photo), Solinas 1995: 358 (drawing).

Inscribed on the foot of the patera; only one frame line and parts of two letters are preserved. Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 187 f., no. 6 read sinistroverse p̣a[ or ṿa[, while Morandi prefers the reading lu( as in CO·10 ("in ductus sinsitrorso", but surely dextroverse?).

Bibliography

Garovaglio 1877	Alfonso Garovaglio, "Qualificazioni delle figure contenute nelle tav. I.a III.a IV.a V.a", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 35–39.