VB·3.4

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: tu??
Reading in original script: ??U sT s
Variant reading: I sN sU sT s tuni

Object: VB·3 Ornavasso (bottle)
(Inscriptions: VB·3.1, VB·3.2, VB·3.3, VB·3.4, VB·3.5)
Position: shoulder, outside
Orientation:
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height: 0.5–0.8 cm0.197 in <br />0.315 in <br />
Number of letters: 4
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: complete, damaged

Archaeological culture: La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription: first half of 1st c. BC [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: perhaps Celtic
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10
Solinas 1995: 128 5
Morandi 2004: 48 B3

Sources: Morandi 2004: 550–552 no. 48 B3

Images

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 69 f. (no. 21). Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.

Images in Lejeune 1987: pl. XIIIc (photo = Solinas 1995: tav. LXXIb), Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.48 (drawing).

Kretschmer 1905: 99, no. 21 (tuni :), Rhŷs 1913: 62, no. 20 (b) (tuni:), Whatmough 1933: 111–113, no. 304 (d) (tuni:), Pisani 1964: 286 f., no. 124 (d) (etninou . ealutou : iutuni :, see also Lejeune 1971: 74, n. 259), Lejeune 1987: 479, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144–146 (tuni:) (also Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162–164, no. 10), Solinas 1995: 375, no. 128 2 (tu[), Morandi 2004: 550–552 no. 48 B1 (tuni).

See also Giussani 1902: 55 f., Piana Agostinetti 1972: 272, no. 12, tav. XXXI.12, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 57, in IV Morandi 1999b: 308–312, no. 4.

Bibliography

Bianchetti 1895 Enrico Bianchetti, I sepolcreti di Ornavasso [= Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti della provincia di Torino 6], Torino: Paravia 1895.
Caramella & De Giuli 1993 Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.