VB·1 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification: bottle
Archaeological Type: fiasca a trottola

Material: pottery
Size: height 15.9 cm, max. diam. 22 cm, foot diam. 11.2 cm, mouth diam. 2.1 cm
Condition: complete, broken, repaired
Autopsy by: Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy: Apr 20 2024

Archaeological culture: La Tène D
Date: late 2nd–1st c. BC

Site: Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: San Bernardo
Archaeological context: grave 29
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 59' 2.22" N, 8° 24' 11.87" E
Find date: 1890–1893
Find circumstances: excavation
Finder: Enrico Bianchetti
Current location: Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica "Enrico Bianchetti" (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.: 321 (261)

Inscription: VB·1 (ṣasamos)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 305
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 11
Solinas 1995: 129
Morandi 2004: 45

Sources: Morandi 2004: 547 no. 45

Images

Commentary

Image in Morandi 1999: 194, pl. 7.1 (photo).

Found in the inhumation grave no. 29 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 117 f. with list of furniture); one side of the body is smashed, but reconstructed from the fragments. Dated tentatively to before 150 BC by Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 4 f., but to the advanced 1st c. BC by Morandi 1999: 169, no. 13, following Piana Agostinetti 1972: 65.

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.