VB·15

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: onesi
Reading in original script: O8 dN6 dE9 dS6 dI d

Object: VB·15 Ornavasso (unidentifiable)
Position: foot, inside
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: Latin script
Letter height: 1–1.3 cm0.394 in <br />0.512 in <br />
Number of letters: 5
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: complete

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

Type: unknown
Language: unknown
Meaning: 'of Onesos' (?)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 316
Morandi 2004: 59

Sources: Morandi 2004: 560 no. 59

Images

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 68 (no. 11), 279. Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.

Image in Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.59 (drawing).

Inscribed on the inside bottom of the vessel near the centre, across two decorative concentric circles; well legible. The letters are Latin, even though the two lower bars of epsilon are obliquely pointing downward. Bianchetti and, following him, Kretschmer 1905: 98, Rhŷs 1913: 60 and Whatmough PID 117 f., no. 316, misread ]onis (cf. VB·13, VB·14); hence Morandi's assumption that the inscription had not been previously mentioned. onesi is most likely a genitive rather than an abbreviation, as common in the Latin graffiti from In Persona; the name is not evidently Celtic.

See also Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: 398 f., n. 1956 (with drawing), Morandi 1999b: 328, n. 19 (?).

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.