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{{inscription
|reading=uini
|reading_lepontic={{c|I}}{{c|N}}{{c|I}}{{c|U}}
|direction=sinistroverse
|letter_height_min=0.8 cm
|letter_number_min=4
|word_number=1
|line_number=1
|corpus=Cisalpine Celtic
|script=North Italic script
|script_adaptation=Latin script
|object=VA·19 Arsago Seprio
|position=bottom, outside
|orientation=180
|workmanship=scratched after firing
|condition=complete
|type_inscription=unknown
|language=Celtic
|meaning='of Uin(i)os'
|morandi=119
|source_detail=Morandi 2004: 602 no. 119
|checklevel=0
}}
==Commentary==
First published in {{bib|Morandi 2001}}: 13, no. 7. Examined for LexLep on 30<sup>th</sup> April 2022.

Images in {{bib|Morandi 2001}}: 13, no. 7 (drawing), {{bib|Morandi 2004}}: 603, fig. 16.119 (drawing) and tav. XVIII.119 (photo).

Inscribed upside-down on the bottom of the patera near the rim of the foot (length 2.5 cm). Nu, whose form is difficult to judge due to the absence of a straight baseline in the inscription, could also be classified as Latin {{c||N6}}; influence from Latin can certainly be argued with regard to the large angle formed by the bars (cf. [[VA·20]] from the same grave). The sinistroverse writing direction precludes a classification of the inscription's alphabet as Latin (but note that other attestations of ''uin''° ([[MI·16]], [[NO·12]], [[NO·17.2]]) are all written in the Latin alphabet).

The sequence can be interpreted as a Celtic masculine personal name in the genitive (thus Morandi; see the word page for details).
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