CO·14
From Lexicon Leponticum
| Reading in Transliteration: | mei / va |
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| Reading in Original Script: |      (turned 180°)
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| Variant Reading: | meiva (single crescent line), mei / va (two words); meki / va (ligature, Tibiletti Bruno) |
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| Object: | CO·14 Rondineto (unidentifiable)Latitude: 45.809226 Longitude: 9.076093 |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of Writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic Script |
| Number of Letters: | 5 |
| Number of Words: | 1 |
| Number of Lines: | 2 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after burning |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological Culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of Inscription: | 4th century BC [from object] |
| Date derived from: | palaeography [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Syntactic Analysis: | PN? |
| Meaning: | "Meiva" (?) |
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| Alternative Sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 296 Solinas 1994: 87 Morandi 2004: 161 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 629-630 & 628 (fig. 20.161) & 800 (pl. XXIII.161) Morandi 1999: 179-180 Solinas 1994: 354 |
Images
 Inscription CO·14 meiva
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 Potsherd CO·14 Rondineto with inscription CO·14 mei / va
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 Inscription CO·14 mei / va
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 Drawing of inscription CO·14 mei / va
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 Drawing of inscription CO·14 mei / va
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Commentary
In contrast to Morandi (Morandi 2004: 630) we do not count this inscription as "boustrophedon" since the two lines are both clearly sinistroverse and only oriented bottom to bottom (cf. Morandi 1999: p. 179 ("falso bustrofedismo"), fn. 92 Tibiletti Bruno 1969b: pp. 207-8, nr. 28,Tav. XIII Tibiletti Bruno 1978: p. 147).
- Garovaglio 1883: p. 20, nr. 1, pl. fig. 1
- Whatmough 1933 (PID): 296
- Rhŷs 1913: p. 61, n. 1, 2
- Solinas 1994: p. 354, n. 87
- Morandi 1999: p. 179, n. 27, Pl. XV, 1
Bibliography
| Garovaglio 1883 | Alfonso Garovaglio, "Segni graffiti impressi, od a vernice traslucido, su vasi arcaici delle necropoli di Rondineto, Golasecca, Castelletto Ticino, Coarezza, Montorfano ed Orile", Rivista Archeologica della Provincia di Como 23 (1883), 18-26. |
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| Morandi 1999 | Alessandro Morandi, "Epigrafia vascolare celtica fra Ticino e Como", Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 77 (1999), 151-204. |
| Morandi 2004 | Alessandro Morandi, Celti d'Italia. A cura di Paola Piana Agostinetti. Tomo II: Epigrafia e lingua dei Celti d'Italia [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 12.2], Roma: Spazio Tre 2004. |
| Rhŷs 1913 | Sir John Rhŷs, The Celtic inscriptions of Cisalpine Gaul [= Proceedings of the British Academy 6], London: British Academy 1913. |
| Solinas 1994 | Patrizia Solinas, "Il Celtico in Italia", Studi Etruschi 60 (1994 [1995]), 311-408. |
| Tibiletti Bruno 1969b | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Il Mondo Culturale di Comum", Memorie dell'Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere 30/3 (1969), 167-315. |
| Tibiletti Bruno 1978 | Maria Grazia Tibiletti Bruno, "Ligure Leponzio e Gallico", in: Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi (Ed.), Lingue e dialetti dell'Italia antica [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 6/1], Roma: Biblioteca di Storia Patria 1978, 131-208. |
| Whatmough 1933 | Joshua Whatmough, The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy. Vol. 2, Part 3: The Raetic, Lepontic, Gallic, East-Italic, Messapic and Sicel inscriptions, Cambridge/Mass.: Harvard University Press 1933. |
