VB·17 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	cup
Archaeological Type:	terra sigillata type Haltern 12 / Dragendorff 25
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 5.1 cm, max. diam. 11.8 cm, mouth diam. 10.9 cm, foot diam. 5.6 cm
Condition:	complete, broken, repaired
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	Roman imperial period
Date:	second quarter of 1st c. AD
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	In Persona
Archaeological context:	grave 40
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 4.06" N, 8° 24' 3.28" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	1358 (1206)
Inscription:	VB·17 (atis(?)s)
Stamp:	M^P^R^EN^ICES
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 318 Morandi 2004: 60
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 560 f. no. 60

Images

Cup VB·17 Ornavasso

Cup VB·17 Ornavasso with pottery stamp

Commentary

Images in Bianchetti 1895: tav. XXII.24 (photo), Graue 1974: Taf. 59.9 (drawing).

Elaborate terra sigillata cup type Haltern 12 (Dragendorff 25) found in the inhumation grave no. 40 of the In Persona necropolis (see Bianchetti 1895: 219 f. with inventory); preserved practically completely with only minor damage to the bottom. Decorated with a coil motif and flowers around the rim. The stamp is recorded as die no. 1164.2 MENO of the potter Meno() in OCK, but is rather that of M. Perennius Crescens (2) (OCK no. 1408, also recorded there, but not identified with the misread Meno), an Arretine potter active between 30 and 60 AD. Grave inventory and object dated to Graue V. See also Graue 1974: 149, 253, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 115, no. 1358.

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.