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

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 124.

Images in Solinas 1995: tav. LXXIc (photo), Morandi 1999: 171, no. 15 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 548, fig. ?? (drawing).

All pretty much agreed on the reading: Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 18, 103, Rhŷs 1913: 61, no. 18, Whatmough PID: 113, no. 306, Pisani 1964: 284 sub no. 120, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 165, no. 12, Solinas 1995: 376, no. 130 (transliterates uase kia and draws attention to a short vertical scratch between epsilon and kappa), Morandi 1999: 170 f., no. 15 (judges the scratch to be accidental).

See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 272, no. 10, Tav. XXXI.10, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: ?, in IV Morandi 1999b: 306–308, no. 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.