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{{inscription
|reading=lutou:unknown!iii
|reading_lepontic={{c|I}}{{c|I|I3|d}}{{c|I|I3|d}}{{c|separator|separator2}}{{c|U}}{{c|O|O3}}{{c|T}}{{c|U}}{{c|L}}
|direction=sinistroverse
|letter_height_min=0.7 cm
|letter_height_max=1.2 cm
|letter_number_min=5
|word_number=1
|line_number=1
|corpus=Cisalpine Celtic
|script=North Italic script
|alphabet=Lepontic alphabet
|object=VB·3 Ornavasso
|position=shoulder, outside
|orientation=0
|workmanship=scratched after firing
|condition=complete
|type_inscription=unknown
|language=Celtic
|linguistic_ascription=prob.
|meaning='Lutou ...'
|whatmough=304
|tibiletti_bruno=10
|solinas=128 3
|morandi=48 B2
|source_detail=Morandi 2004: 550–552 no. 48 B2
|checklevel=1
|problem=literature
|disambiguation=VB·3
}}
==Commentary==
First published in {{bib|Bianchetti 1895}}: 69 f. (no. 21). Examined for LexLep on 20<sup>th</sup> April 2024.

Images in {{bib|Lejeune 1987}}: pl. XIIIb (photo = {{bib|Solinas 1995}}: tav. LXX d and b), {{bib|Piana Agostinetti 1972}}: tav. XXXI.12 (drawing), {{bib|Graue 1974}}: Taf. 30.3 (drawing), {{bib|Morandi 2004}}: 566, fig. 12.48 (drawing).

Inscribed on the opposite side of [[VB·3.2]], below the innermost of the white bands (length 4 cm). The letters, particularly the first upsilon and omicron, are scraggly, but neat. After the sequence {{w||lutou}} follows a separator of two dots, two oblique lines and one straight line. The lines after the separator were read as {{c||U}}{{c||I}} ''iu'' by Bianchetti (also {{bib|Kretschmer 1905}}: 99, no. 21, {{bib|Rhŷs 1913}}: 62, no. 20 (c), {{bib|Whatmough 1933}}: 111–113, no. 304 (c), {{bib|Tibiletti Bruno 1978}}: 144, 146, {{bib|Tibiletti Bruno 1981}}: 162–164, no. 10), while {{bib|Lejeune 1987}}: 497 identified them as "symboles" (thus implicity also {{bib|Morandi 2004}}: 550–552 no. 48 B1, who reads {{w||lutou}}). Negligible {{bib|Solinas 1995}}: 375, no. 128 3, who includes a spot of surface damage as an additional separator (''lutou:i:u''). Since the last two lines do not meet at the bottom, we agree with Lejeune. The function of the lines after the separator is unclear.

{{bib|Pisani 1964}}: 286 f., no. 124 (b), who seems to have worked with Whatmough's inaccurate drawing of the inscriptions' placement on the flask, considered the four short inscriptions on the vase to form a sentence ''etninou.ealutou:iutuni:'', separated for aesthetic reasons. Rather more plausible is Rhŷs' and Lejeune's ({{bib|Lejeune 1987|1987}}: 497) assumption that all the sequences are abbreviations of personal names; {{bib|Morandi 1999}}: 172, no. 17 suggests that they record the names of the gift givers ("sottoscrizioni" in {{bib|Morandi 2004|2004}}: 552). The sequence {{w||lutou}} may indeed be a personal name (or possibly abbreviation); see the word page for comparanda in the corpus. ⟨ou⟩ appears to denote long /{{p||ū}}/ (see the word page). Cf. especially [[VB·3.2]] {{w||inou}}:{{w||ea}}, which is applied directly opposite the present inscription.

See also {{bib|Giussani 1902}}: 55 f., {{bib|Piana Agostinetti 1972}}: 272, no. 12, '''{{bib|Morandi 1999b}}: 308–312, no. 4'''.
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