TI·2

From Lexicon Leponticum

Reading in Transliteration:	koma
Reading in Original Script:
Variant Reading:	koiśa (Morandi), koima
Object:	TI·2 Giubiasco (bowl)Latitude: 46.17262 Longitude: 9.011164
Position:	bottom, outside
Orientation:	180°
Direction of Writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic Script
Number of Letters:	4 - 5
Number of Words:	1
Number of Lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after burning
Condition:	complete
Archaeological Culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of Inscription:	1st century BC [from object]
Date derived from:	unknown [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Syntactic Analysis:	NP
Meaning:	"Koma" (name)
Alternative Sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 266 Solinas 1994: 15 Motta 2000: 20 Morandi 2004: 3
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 521 & 525 (fig. 8.3) & 782 (pl.) Motta 2000: 211 Solinas 1994: 326

Images

Detail of Bowl TI·2 Giubiasco with inscription TI·2 koma (?)

Inscription TI·2 koma

Bowl TI·2 Giubiasco and detail with the inscription TI·2 koma

Detail of Bowl TI·2 Giubiasco with inscription TI·2 koma (?)

Commentary

Between the second and the fourth letter there can be read one or two signs in some sort of ligature (Motta 2000: 211)
Stöckli 1975 speaks, on p.106, of a Roman form, or at least a form given by the Roman influence, as seen on a Denari coin of the Gens Vibia (86-81 BC).

• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 266
• Ulrich 1914: vol.1 p. 611
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 50, n.6, Tav.IV
• Lejeune 1971: p. 33, note 84
• Crivelli 1977: Tav.I
• Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: p. 356 (reading)
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978-9: p. 143,p. 159
• Solinas 1994: p. 326, n.15
• Morandi 1999: p. 161, n.3
• De Marinis & Biaggio Simona 2000: p. 462, n.33

Bibliography