VB·11 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	cup
Archaeological Type:	terra sigillata, Dragendorff 31
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 6.9 cm, max. diam. 19.9 cm, foot diam.8.8
Condition:	broken, repaired, incomplete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	Roman imperial period
Date:	55–90 AD
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	In Persona
Archaeological context:	grave 153 (Objects: VB·11 Ornavasso, VB·12 Ornavasso, VB·13 Ornavasso)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 4.60" N, 8° 24' 4.25" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica "Enrico Bianchetti" (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	2005-bis (1419)
Inscription:	VB·11 (sabi)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 314 Morandi 2004: 56
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 557 f. no. 56

Images

Cup VB·11 Ornavasso with inscription VB·11

Cup VB·11 Ornavasso

Commentary

Terra sigillata cup of local production, type Dragendorff 31. The document is mentioned in Bianchetti 1895: 69 in the list of inscriptions from Ornavasso (no. 15) as being from tomb 153 at In Persona, but is not included in the inventory on p. 282 f. Though it is also misidentified as a "piatto cavo", the object, which is not mentioned anywhere else, is usually treated as part of the inventory of tomb 153, which contains two other inscribed terra sigillata objects (VB·12 Ornavasso, VB·13 Ornavasso); cf. Danielsson 1909: 31, n. 3. Dating according to Morandi.

Corinna Salomon

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.