CO·26

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	]ụts
Reading in original script:	[
Object:	CO·26 Rondineto (unidentifiable)
Position:	foot, outside
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	3
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–early 4th c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 94 h Morandi 2004: 173
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 636

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·26 from Solinas 1995

Potsherd CO·26 Rondineto with inscription CO·26 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877.

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.32 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.11 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 281, tav. IX.18 (photo).

Written on the foot of the vessel; sigma and St. Andrew's cross are clear, but the third letter, of which only a tip is left, could be alpha or upsilon depending on the orientation. Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 199, no. 18 has sinistroverse stạ[ or stị[, Solinas 1995: 359, no. 94 h dextroverse stụ[ (also Morandi), but the opposite direction with final sigma is equally possible.

Bibliography

Barelli 1877	Vincenzo Barelli, "Villaggio preromano di Rondineto", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 11 (1877), 1–32.