VB·11

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: sabi
Reading in original script: S6 dA22 sB dI d

Object: VB·11 Ornavasso (cup)
Position: foot, outside
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: Latin script
Letter height: 1.8–3.5 cm0.709 in <br />1.378 in <br />
Number of letters: 4
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: Roman imperial period [from object]
Date of inscription: second half of 1st c. AD [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: perhaps Celtic
Meaning: abbreviation (?)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 314
Morandi 2004: 56

Sources: Morandi 2004: 557 f. no. 56

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Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 69 (no. 15).

Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 15, 125, Danielsson 1909: 31, n. 3, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 15, Whatmough PID 117, no. 314, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 146.

See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: ???, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 140, III: 405 f., in IV Morandi 1999b: 327, no. 18.

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.
Danielsson 1909 Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.