VB·3.4
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| Reading in transliteration: | tu?? |
| Reading in original script: | ?? 
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| Variant reading: |   tuni
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| Object: | VB·3 Ornavasso (bottle) (Inscriptions: VB·3.1, VB·3.2, VB·3.3, VB·3.4, VB·3.5) |
| Position: | shoulder, outside |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 0.5–0.8 cm0.197 in <br />0.315 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 4 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | first half of 1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | perhaps Celtic |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 5 Morandi 2004: 48 B3 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 550–552 no. 48 B3 |
Images
 Layout of inscriptions VB·3.1–5 on the shoulder of the vase from Lejeune 1987
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 Inscriptions VB·3.1–5 from Morandi 2004
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 Inscription VB·3.4 from Solinas 1995
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 Top view of VB·3 Ornavasso with all five inscriptions
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 Inscription VB·3.4
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Commentary
First published in Bianchetti 1895: 69 f. (no. 21). Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.
Images in Lejeune 1987: pl. XIIIc (photo = Solinas 1995: tav. LXXIb), Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.48 (drawing).
Kretschmer 1905: 99, no. 21 (tuni :), Rhŷs 1913: 62, no. 20 (b) (tuni:), Whatmough 1933: 111–113, no. 304 (d) (tuni:), Pisani 1964: 286 f., no. 124 (d) (etninou . ealutou : iutuni :, see also Lejeune 1971: 74, n. 259), Lejeune 1987: 479, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144–146 (tuni:) (also Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162–164, no. 10), Solinas 1995: 375, no. 128 2 (tu[), Morandi 2004: 550–552 no. 48 B1 (tuni).
See also Giussani 1902: 55 f., Piana Agostinetti 1972: 272, no. 12, tav. XXXI.12, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 57, in IV Morandi 1999b: 308–312, no. 4.
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. |
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| Caramella & De Giuli 1993 | Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993. |
