VB·12 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification: cup
Archaeological Type: terra sigillata, Dragendorff 23

Material: pottery
Size: height 2.2 cm, max. diam 7.4 cm, foot diam. 6.7 cm
Condition: broken, repaired, incomplete
Autopsy by: Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy: Apr 20 2024

Archaeological culture: Roman imperial period
Date: 55–90 AD

Site: Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: In Persona
Archaeological context: grave 153
(Objects: VB·11 Ornavasso, VB·12 Ornavasso, VB·13 Ornavasso)
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 59' 4.60" N, 8° 24' 4.25" E
Find date: 1890–1893
Find circumstances: excavation
Finder: Enrico Bianchetti
Current location: Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica "Enrico Bianchetti" (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.: 2004 (1420)

Inscription: VB·12 (cesii)
Stamp: L·M·V

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 317
Morandi 2004: 57

Sources: Morandi 2004: 558 no. 57

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Commentary

Small terra sigillata cup with almost vertical wall and flat bottom found in the inhumation grave no. 153 of the In Persona necropolis, together with VB·11 Ornavasso and VB·13 Ornavasso (see Bianchetti 1895: 282 f. with the grave inventory); it has been almost completely restored from numerous fragments. The wall is decorated with two pairs of grooves. The stamp on the inside bottom is that of L. Mag() Vir(), a potter(y) active in the Po valley between 40 and 120 AD (OCK no. 1085); it is the same as on VB·13 Ornavasso. Dating from Morandi.

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.