VB·3.5

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	enu
Reading in original script:
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
Number of letters:	2–3
Number of words:	1
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:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Syntactic analysis:	-
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 2 Morandi 2004: 48 B4
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 550-553 & 566 (fig. 12.48) Solinas 1995: 375

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	Inscription VB·3.5 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	Inscription VB·3.5

Commentary

• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 162-164, n.10
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): p. 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

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.