VB·17

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: atis
Reading in original script: A22 dT3 dI sS6 d

Object: VB·17 Ornavasso (cup)
Position: foot, outside
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: Latin script
Letter height: 0.7–1.5 cm0.276 in <br />0.591 in <br />
Number of letters: 4
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: Roman imperial period [from object]
Date of inscription: second quarter of 1st c. AD [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: unknown
Meaning: abbreviation (?)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 318
Morandi 2004: 60

Sources: Morandi 2004: 560 f. no. 60

Images

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 219.

Image in Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.60 (drawing).

All agreed on the reading: Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 5, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 5 ("mixed letters"), Whatmough PID: 118, no. 318, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 145.

See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: ?, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 115, no. 1358, in IV Morandi 1999b: 323 f., no. 14.

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.