CO·54
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| Reading in transliteration: | ]ạev |
| Reading in original script: | ]  
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| Object: | CO·54 Prestino (bowl) |
| Position: | bottom, inside |
| Orientation: | 90° |
| Frame: | ? ? (left: unknown, middle: top and bottom, right: unknown)
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| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 3 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
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| Archaeological culture: | Golasecca III A 2–3 [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | mid-5th–early 4th c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | none |
| Meaning: | 'AEV' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Solinas 1995: 74 Morandi 2004: 186 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 641–643 |
Images
 Drawing of inscription CO·54 from Morandi 2004
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 Potsherd CO·54 Prestino with inscription CO·54 from Morandi 2004
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Commentary
Images in Morandi 1999: 178 (drawing = Morandi 2004: 642, fig. 22.186) and 201, tav. XIV.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: 802, tav. XXV.186).
Inscribed dextroverse on the inside of the vessel; only a frame line below the letters is preserved, but the presence of one on the top may be inferred from comparison with CO·53; as in the latter inscription, the line extends beyond waw for the space of about one letter before it is cut off by the breaking edge. The beginning of the inscription is not preserved; only the two bars of alpha are left, so that it is unclear whether the hasta was straight or oblique. The interpretation as "l'inizio della serie alfabetica" was proposed by Morandi 1999: 177, no. 24. See CO·53 for considerations about the two Lepontic pars-pro-toto alphabets.
