PV·2
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| Reading in transliteration: | s?t |
| Reading in original script: |   
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| Object: | PV·2 Garlasco (bowl) |
| Position: | bottom, outside |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | unknown |
| Number of letters: | 3 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | Augustan [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Solinas 1995: 111 Morandi 2004: 102 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 591 |
Commentary
Image in Frontini 1985: 190, tav. 24.3 (drawing).
Inscribed on the bottom of the patera. Solinas reads sp̣t and suggests a "[s]cheletro consonantico di un nome proprio" like sapsuta; Morandi observes "tre lettere di dubbia classificazione". Indeed it is uncertain whether the inscription is alphabetically Lepontic or Latin; initial sigma is clear, St Andrew's cross at the end could be Lepontic /t/ as well as Latin /x/. The letter in the middle looks like retrograde upsilon in Frontini's drawing.
