VB·15

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	onesi
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·15 Ornavasso (unidentifiable)
Position:	foot, inside
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	Latin script
Letter height:	1–1.3 cm0.394 in <br />0.512 in <br />
Number of letters:	5
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Roman imperial period [from object]
Date of inscription:	1st c. AD [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	'of Ones(i)os' (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 316 Morandi 2004: 59
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 560 no. 59

Images

Inscription VB·15 from Morandi 2004

Fragment VB·15 Ornavasso with inscription VB·15

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 68 (no. 11), 279. Examined for LexLep on 20^th April 2024.

Image in Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.59 (drawing).

Inscribed on the inside bottom of the vessel near the centre, across two decorative concentric circles; well legible. The letters are Latin, even though the two lower bars of epsilon are obliquely pointing downward. Bianchetti and, following him, Kretschmer 1905: 98, Rhŷs 1913: 60 and Whatmough PID 117 f., no. 316, misread ]onis (cf. VB·13, VB·14); hence Morandi's assumption that the inscription had not been previously mentioned. onesi is most likely a genitive rather than an abbreviation, as common in the Latin graffiti from In Persona; the name is not evidently Celtic.

See also Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: 398 f., n. 1956 (with drawing), Morandi 1999b: 328, n. 19 (?).

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.