VB·2 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 11.5 cm, max. diam. 21.3 cm, foot diam. 9.8
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1
Date:	end of 2nd century BC
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	San Bernardo
Archaeological context:	grave 32
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 58' 8.40" N, 8° 24' 57.60" E [from site]
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania Pallanza)
Inventory no.:	290
Inscription:	VB·2 (oletuamaśilu)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 307 Solinas 1995: 131 Morandi 2004: 46
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 549 no. 46

Images

Bottle VB·2 Ornavasso from Morandi 1999

Detail of bottle VB·2 Ornavasso with inscription VB·2 from Solinas 1995

Detail of bottle VB·2 Ornavasso with inscription VB·2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966

Flask VB·2 Ornavasso

Commentary

Images in Rhŷs 1914: pl. V (reproduction of Bianchetti pl. XVIII.11), Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 12 (detail photo), Solinas 1995: tav. LXXII (detail photo), Morandi 1999: 194, pl. 7.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: ?).

Vaso a trottola with one white circular band painted on the shoulder, found in the inhumation grave no. 32 of the San Bernardo necropolis; list of the furniture in Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 12, n. 23. On the dating Morandi 1999: 169 f., no. 12, following Piana Agostinetti 1972: 69, 250 f.

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.