NO·10

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	turokos
Reading in original script:
Object:	NO·10 Oleggio (bowl)
Position:	foot, outside
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1 [from object]
Date of inscription:	first quarter of 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Turokos'
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 86
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 578

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1999: 389, no. 7.

Images in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 100, fig. 76.4 (drawing = Gambari 1999: 393, fig. 417.7), Gambari 1999: 389, fig. 412 (photo).

Inscribed on the foot of the patera along the rim; Celtic name in the nominative (see the word page). Cf. the likely abbreviation NO·11 tur, though the latter is dated about 50 years later and written in the Latin alphabet.

Bibliography

Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999	Angela Deodato, Elena Poletti Ecclesia, "Catalogo", in: Giuseppina Spagnolo Garzoli (ed.), Conubia gentium. La necropoli di Oleggio e la romanizzazione dei Vertamocori. Catalogo della mostra Oleggio, Palazzo Bellini 23 gennaio - 30 aprile 1999, Torino: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologica del Piemonte 1999, 55–286.