VB·4

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: atios
Reading in original script: S sO8 sI sT sA3 s

Object: VB·4 Ornavasso (bottle)
Position: shoulder, outside
Orientation:
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height: 1.5 cm0.591 in <br />
Number of letters: 5
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription: first half of 1st c. BC [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: Celtic
Meaning: 'Atios'

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 308
Solinas 1995: 132
Morandi 2004: 49

Sources: Morandi 2004: 553 no. 49

Images

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 117 f.

Images in Morandi 1999: 173 (drawing) and Morandi 2004: 548, fig. 11.45 (drawing).

All agreed on the reading and interpretation as a personal name in the nominative: Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 4, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 4, Whatmough PID: 114, no. 308, Pisani 1964: 284, no. 120, Solinas 1995: 376 f., no. 132, Morandi 1999: 172 f., no. 18.

See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 83, 272, n. 8, Tav. XXXI.3, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 63, in IV Morandi 1999b: 314 f., no. 5.

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.