VB·4

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	atios
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·4 Ornavasso (bottle)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script
Letter height:	1.5 cm0.591 in <br />
Number of letters:	5
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	unknown
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	first half of 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Syntactic analysis:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 308 Solinas 1995: 132 Morandi 2004: 49
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 553 Solinas 1995: 376-377

Images

Inscription VB·4 from Morandi 1999

Inscription VB·4 from Solinas 1995

Flask VB·4 Ornavasso with inscription VB·4

Inscription VB·4

Commentary

• Kretschmer 1905: p. 98, nr. 4
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 308
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 82
• Piana Agostinetti 1972: p. 83 and p. 272, n.8, Tav. XXXi, n.3
• Graue 1974: p. 231
• Solinas 1995: p. 376, n.132, Tav. LXXXI d
• Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 67 and 154 of Volume 1 and p. 63 of Volume 2
• Morandi 1999: p. 172, n.18, Pl. IX, 2
• Morandi 1999b: pp. 314-315, n.5

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.