VB·3.1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	latumarui : sapsutai : pe : uinom : natom
Reading in original script:	§
Variant reading:	naśom (Solinas) naxom (Stifter) § § latuśarui : sapsutai : pe : uinoś : natoś
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)
adapted to:	Latin script
Number of letters:	29
Number of words:	5
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	first half of 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	dedicatory
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'for Latumaros and Sapsuta Naxian wine' (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 1 Morandi 2004: 48 A
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 550–552 no. 48 A

Images

Layout of inscriptions VB·3.1–5 on the shoulder of the vase from Lejeune 1987	Inscriptions VB·3.1–5 from Morandi 2004	Detail of bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscriptions VB·3.1 and VB·3.2 from Solinas 1995	Detail of inscription VB·3.1 from Solinas 1995	Top view of VB·3 Ornavasso with all five inscriptions
Flask VB·3 Ornavasso with inscriptions VB·3.1, VB·3.2 and VB·3.5	Inscription VB·3.1 Ornavasso, with VB·3.2 and VB·3.5 in the background	The last word in VB·3.1

Commentary

• Lattes 1885-6: pp. 102-108,
• Kretschmer 1905: pp. 99-101, nr. 20
• Hirt 1917: pp. 210-211
• Lejeune 1987: pp. 493-508, fn. on p. 493
• Meid 1999: pp. 15, fn. 24,
• Lambert 1994: pp. 21,
• Pellegrini 1983: pp. 36-37,
• Tibiletti Bruno 1975: pp. 54,
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 144-146 (wrong reading),
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 162-164, n.10
• Birkhan 2005
• Whatmough 1933 (PID):304
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 83, n.20
• Piana Agostinetti 1972: p.272, n.12, Tav. XXXI, n.12
• Graue 1974: p. 228
• Solinas 1995: p. 375, n.128, Tavv. LXIXb, LXX a-d and LXXI a-b
• Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 69 and 145 of Volume 1 and p. 57 of Volume 2
• Morandi 1999: p. 172, n.17, Pl. IX, 1
• Morandi 1999b: pp. 308-312, n.4

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.
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.
Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.
Danielsson 1909	Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.