NO·18 Miasino

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 7 cm, max. diam. 11 cm
Condition:	incomplete
Archaeological culture:	unknown
Date:	second half of 2nd century BC
Date derived from:	palaeography
Site:	Miasino (Novara, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	Carcegna
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 48' 30.89" N, 8° 25' 17.28" E
Find date:	1903
Current location:	unknown
Inscription:	NO·18 (metelui:maeśilalui:uenia:metelikna:aśmina:krasanikna)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 321 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 20 Solinas 1995: 122 Morandi 2004: 94
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 582 no. 94

Images

Bottle NO·18 Miasino with part of inscription NO·18 from Gambari 2019b

Bottle NO·18 Miasino with part of inscription NO·18 from Gambari 2019b

Bottle NO·18 Miasino with inscription NO·18 from Gambari 2019b

Commentary

Images in Lattes 1904: tav. (photos = Rhŷs 1913: tav. VII).

Small lenticular flask found together with a ceramic bowl – conceivably its cover – by a farmer in a place where the landowner Augusto Curioni had found around 15 tombs some 10 years earlier; the neck is missing. Seen by Rhŷs in 1913 and 1914, the vessel could not be found in Curioni's house in Orta when Whatmough requested to see it 1923 (PID: 120). It is recorded as being in private possession by Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 175 (also Solinas).

Bibliography

Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.
Gambari 2019	Filippo Maria Gambari, "De transitu Gallorum haec accepimus. Cronologia, fonti e modelli narrativi dei passi liviani sull'arrivo dei Galli, alla luce dell'archeologia", Preistoria Alpina 49bis (2019), 55–63.