CO·59
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| Reading in transliteration: | sekezoṣ |
| Reading in original script: |      
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| Object: | CO·59 Prestino (bowl) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 7 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched into leather-hard clay |
| Condition: | damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | Golasecca III A 2 [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | second half of 5th c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | mark of manufacturer |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Sekezos' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Motta 2000: 13 2 Morandi 2004: 191 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 644 f. no. 191 |
Images
 Inscription CO·59 from Morandi
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 Fragmentary bowl CO·59 Prestino with inscription CO·59 from Motta
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Commentary
First published in Motta 2000: 207 f., no. 13.2.
Images in Motta 2000: 207, fig. 11 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 647, fig. 23.191 (drawing).
Inscribed before the firing across the foot of the bowl, which, in combination with the repeated attestation at the same find spot (see CO·57, CO·58, CO·60), makes a manufacturer's signature likely (thus Morandi; cf. the plioiso-group), though the execution is not identical in the four inscriptions (forms of sigma and kappa, direction of the bars of zeta, frame). The letters are only slightly damaged; final sigma is damaged in the upper area and may be 
. Morandi mentions a frame, which is in neither of the drawings.
The sequence sekezos is an o-stem personal name in the nominative; see CO·57 on the reading of zeta.
