CO·5

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	tṛ?[
Reading in original script:	]?
Object:	CO·5 Rondineto (bowl)
Position:	bottom, inside
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height:	3.4 cm1.339 in <br />
Number of letters:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	damaged, 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:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 288 Solinas 1995: 79 Morandi 2004: 152
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 624 f.

Images

Drawing of inscription CO·5 from Solinas 1995

Potsherd CO·5 Rondineto with inscription CO·5 from Tibiletti Bruno 1969b

Commentary

First published in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877. Examined for LexLep on 2^nd April 2025.

Images in Barelli 1877/Garovaglio 1877: tav. III.33 (drawing), Oberziner 1883: tav. XIX.13 (drawing copied from Garovaglio), Pauli 1885: Taf. I.18d (drawing from Poggi), Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 283, tav. XI.23 (photo), Solinas 1995: 350 (drawing).

Inscribed on the inside of the patera below the rim (length of remains 4.5 cm). Originally read ]tiu[ (Poggi 1879: 311, no. 45, Pauli 1885: 9 f., no. 18 d, Giussani 1902: 45, Rhŷs 1913: 38, III.1.1d (or ]uit[), Rhŷs 1914: 8, Whatmough PID: 100, no. 288) or tạ[ (Oberziner 1883: 145); more plausible a reading of the second letter as rho as per Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: 202 f., no. 23, who reads tṛị[ (also Morandi). Only a short section of a hasta is left of the third letter, so that it may be alpha, upsilon, or possibly even epsilon as well as iota (cf. Solinas 1995: 349 f., no. 79 tr?[) ).

tr?( may be the beginning of a Celtic personal name; see the word page.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

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