VB·2 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification: bottle
Archaeological Type: fiasca a trottola

Material: pottery
Size: height 11.5 cm, max. diam. 21.3 cm, foot diam. 9.8, mouth diam. 3 cm
Condition: complete
Autopsy by: Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy: Apr 20 2024

Archaeological culture: La Tène D 1
Date: end of 2nd c. BC

Site: Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: San Bernardo
Archaeological context: grave 32
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 59' 2.13" N, 8° 24' 12.09" E
Find date: 1890–1893
Find circumstances: excavation
Finder: Enrico Bianchetti
Current location: Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania Pallanza)
Inventory no.: 356 (290)

Inscription: VB·2 (oletuamaśilu)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 307
Solinas 1995: 131
Morandi 2004: 46

Sources: Morandi 2004: 549 no. 46

Images

Commentary

Images in Rhŷs 1914: pl. V (reproduction of Bianchetti pl. XVIII.11), Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 12 (detail photo), Solinas 1995: tav. LXXII (detail photo), Morandi 1999: 194, pl. 7.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: tav. IX.46).

Vaso a trottola with one white circular band painted on the shoulder, found in the inhumation grave no. 32 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 120 with list of furniture); undamaged apart from a crack on the shoulder. On the dating Morandi 1999: 169 f., no. 12, following Piana Agostinetti 1972: 69, 250 f.

Corinna Salomon

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.