NO·3
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| Reading in transliteration: | ṃ[ |
| Reading in original script: | ]
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| Object: | NO·3 Castelletto sopra Ticino (bowl) |
| Position: | bottom, inside |
| Orientation: | 180° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | unknown |
| Number of letters: | 0 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | fragmentary |
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| Archaeological culture: | Golasecca II B [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 6th–early 5th c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 76 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 571 |
Commentary
First published in Gambari 1987: 412–414.
Image in Gambari 1987: 413, fig. 33.4 (drawing = Gambari 1989b: 213, fig. 2B).
Referred to as an inscription beginning in mu by Gambari (also 1989b: 215), but the prolongation of the putative hasta, with two horizontal bars forming crosses, draws this into doubt. Morandi aptly compares TI·1, which also features zig-zags and a similarly prolonged vertical line. Cf. also the para-script zig-zag element in NO·1. Thus probably para-script, unless a language-encoding sequence, as in NO·1, is lost.
