VB·1 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 15.9 cm, max. diam. 22 cm, foot diam. 11.2 cm, mouth diam. 2.1 cm
Condition:	complete, broken, repaired
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	late 2nd–1st c. BC
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	San Bernardo
Archaeological context:	grave 29
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 2.22" N, 8° 24' 11.87" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica "Enrico Bianchetti" (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	321 (261)
Inscription:	VB·1 (ṣasamos)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 305 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 11 Solinas 1995: 129 Morandi 2004: 45
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 547 no. 45

Images

Bottle VB·1 Ornavasso from Morandi 1999

Flask VB·1 Ornavasso with inscription VB·1

Commentary

Image in Morandi 1999: 194, pl. 7.1 (photo).

Found in the inhumation grave no. 29 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 117 f. with list of furniture); one side of the body is smashed, but reconstructed from the fragments. Dated tentatively to before 150 BC by Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 4 f., but to the advanced 1^st c. BC by Morandi 1999: 169, no. 13, following Piana Agostinetti 1972: 65.

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.