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Attestation:	BG·28.1 (pit[), BG·30 (pit), BG·7 (pit) (3)
Status:	unlikely
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Word Type:	prob. proper noun
Semantic Field:	prob. personal name
Grammatical Categories:	indeterminable
Morphemic Analysis:	unknown
Phonemic Analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)

Commentary

See the inscription pages on the unlikely reading.

Very probably a workman's mark considering the reoccurrence of the sequence in the area of Bergamo (even though two instances are dextroverse and one, BG·7, is sinistroverse). An abbreviation of a personal name seems feasible; cf. Gaulish names in litu- 'celebration' like litugenus, litumara, litulla (DLG: 205, Delamarre 2007: 224 f. et passim).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Delamarre 2007	Xavier Delamarre, Noms de personnes celtiques dans l'épigraphie classique. Nomina Celtica Antiqua Selecta Inscriptionum, Paris: Errance 2007.
DLG	Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, 2nd, revised edition, Paris: Errance 2003.