VB·3 Ornavasso

Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola, Kreiselflasche

Material:	pottery
Size:
Extension (h):	13.8 cm5.433 in <br />
Diameter (max.):	20.8 cm8.189 in <br />
Colour:	brown
Ornament:
Manner:	painted
Design:	concentric white bands
Condition:	complete, repaired

Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1
Date:	end of 2^nd century BC / beginning of 1^st century BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context

Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	San Bernardo
Archaeological context:	grave 84
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 58' 8.40" N, 8° 24' 57.60" E [from site]
Find date:	end of 19^th century
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti (archaeological director)
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania Pallanza)
Inventory no.:	499

Inscriptions:	VB·3.1 (latumarui:sapsutai:pe:uinom:natom) VB·3.2 (inou:ea) VB·3.3 (lutou:iii) VB·3.4 (tu??) VB·3.5 (enu)

Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 Morandi 2004: 48

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 550-553 & 787 (pl. X.48) Morandi 1999: 172 & fn. 72 Solinas 1995: 375 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162-164

Images

Bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscription VB·3 from Morandi 1999

Detail of bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscriptions VB·3.1 and VB·3.2 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

Dating:

Divergent object date: "1^st century BC (Augustan era) after a triobol of Massalia with rikoi legend (i.e. NM·5) that is attested from 80 BC to 14 AD" (Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162)
Giussani 1902: 55-57
Piana Agostinetti 1972: 104, 249-250
Lejeune 1987: 493-509

Bianchetti 1895	Enrico Bianchetti, I sepolcreti di Ornavasso [= Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti della provincia di Torino 6], Torino: Paravia 1895.
Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.