VB·4 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 14.4 cm, max. diam. 21.1 cm, foot diam. 9.3 cm, mouth diam. 2.2 cm
Condition:	complete, damaged
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1
Date:	late 2nd–early 1st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	San Bernardo
Archaeological context:	grave 105
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 1.82" N, 8° 24' 12.25" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	705 (562)
Inscription:	VB·4 (atios)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 308 Solinas 1995: 132 Morandi 2004: 49
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 553 no. 49

Images

Bottle VB·4 Ornavasso from Morandi 1999

Flask VB·4 Ornavasso with inscription VB·4

Commentary

Images in Piana Agostinetti 1972: 116, fig. 109.4 (drawing), Graue 1974: Taf. 31.1 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 196, 9.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: tav. X.49).

Vaso a trottola with one white circular band painted on the shoulder, found in the inhumation grave no. 105 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 153 f. with list of furniture); in perfect condition apart from a small hole in the side. Grave inventory, including a denarius of Maenius Antiacus (struck 119–110 BC), dated to Graue II. See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 116 f., Graue 1974: 139, 231, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 63.

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.