CO·1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: kut
Reading in original script: unknown

Object: CO·1 Gravedona (pitcher)
Position: outside
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: unknown
Number of letters: 3
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: unknown
Condition: unknown

Archaeological culture: La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription: late 2nd–1st c. BC (?) [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: unknown
Meaning: abbreviation (?)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 278
Solinas 1995: 61
Morandi 2004: 144

Sources: Morandi 2004: 618 no. 144

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1879b: 27.

Image (drawing) in Barelli implied by Morandi.

Three letters inscribed "all'esterno del vaso nella parte inferiore" (Morandi), dextroverse "in what appears to be the Lepontic αβ" according to Whatmough PID: 96.

Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146 suggests that the sequence could be an abbreviation of the PN "Cut(t)ius" rather than the Etr. noun qutun (type of vessel); Gambari & Colonna 1988: 134 compare it to VA·32.

See also Pisani 1964: 283, no. 120 I.

Bibliography

Barelli 1879b Vincenzo Barelli, "(unknown)", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 16 (1879), round about 27.
Gambari & Colonna 1988 Filippo Maria Gambari, Giovanni Colonna, "Il bicchiere con iscrizione arcaica da Castelletto Ticino e l'adozione della scrittura nell'Italia nord-occidentale", Studi Etruschi 54 (1986 [1988]), 119–164.