VB·16

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	uasekia
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·16 Ornavasso (bottle)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	first half of 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Uasekia'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 306 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 12 Solinas 1995: 130 Morandi 2004: 47
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 549 f. no. 47

Images

Inscription VB·16 from Morandi 2004

Inscription VB·16 from Solinas 1995

Detail of VB·16 Ornavasso with inscription VB·16

Commentary

• Kretschmer 1905: 98, nr. 18 and p. 103
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 306
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 83, n.18
• Piana Agostinetti 1972: p. 272, n.10, Tav. XXXI, n.10
• Graue 1974: p. 221
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: p. 165, n.12
• Solinas 1995: p. 376, n.130, Tav. LXXIc
• Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 69 and 124 of Volume 1
• Morandi 1999: p. 170, n.15, Pl. VIII
• Morandi 1999b: pp. 306-308, n.3

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.