VB·3.5
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| Reading in transliteration: | enu |
| Reading in original script: |   
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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: | 0.5–0.7 cm0.197 in <br />0.276 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 3 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete |
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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: | prob. Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Enu' (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 2 Morandi 2004: 48 B4 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 550–552 no. 48 B4 |
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·3.5 from Solinas 1995
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 Top view of VB·3 Ornavasso with all five inscriptions
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 Flask VB·3 Ornavasso with inscriptions VB·3.1, VB·3.2 and VB·3.5
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 Inscription VB·3.1 Ornavasso, with VB·3.2 and VB·3.5 in the background
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 Inscription VB·3.5
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Commentary
First published in Rhŷs 1914: 26. Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.
Images in Lejeune 1987: pl. XIIIa (photo = Solinas 1995: tav. LXX a), Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.48 (drawing).
Inscribed below and to the left of VB·3.4, at the same height as VB·3.1 above the outer of the two white bands (length 1.2 cm). Detected and read enu by Rhŷs; Whatmough's (PID: 111–113, no. 304 (e)) etn inexplicable (also Pisani 1964: 286 f., no. 124 (e)). The letters are more deeply incised than those of the other inscriptions on the flask; together with the placement of the sequence out of line with the other three short inscriptions, VB·3.5 may be a later addition. enu qualifies as a personal name or abbreviation; a connection with VB·3.2 inou seems possible.
See also Lejeune 1987: 497, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144 f., Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162–164, no. 10, Piana Agostinetti 1972: 272, no. 12, tav. XXXI.12, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 57, in IV Morandi 1999b: 308–312, no. 4.
Bibliography
| Birkhan 2005 | Helmut Birkhan, "UINOM NAŚOM", in: Franziska Beutler, Wolfgang Hameter (Eds.), "Eine ganz normale Inschrift" ... Vnd ähnLiches zVm GebVrtstag von Ekkehard Weber. Festschrift zum 30. April 2005 [= Althistorisch-Epigraphische Studien 5], Wien: Eigenverlag der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Archäologie 2005, 223-228. |
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