VB·3 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 13.8 cm, max. diam. 20.8 cm, foot diam. 9 cm
Condition:	complete, repaired
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1
Date:	end of 2nd/beginning of 1st c. 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:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
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 no. 48

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

Commentary

Vaso a trottola with two white circular bands painted on the shoulder, found in the inhumation grave no. 84 of the San Bernardo necropolis.

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

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.
Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.