VB·16 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification: bottle
Archaeological Type: fiasca a trottola

Material: pottery
Size: height 16.5 cm, max. diam. 26.6 cm, foot diam. 11.4 cm, mouth diam. 3.2 cm
Condition: complete, broken, repaired
Autopsy by: Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy: Apr 20 2024

Archaeological culture: La Tène D
Date: 1st c. BC

Site: Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: San Bernardo
Archaeological context: grave 37
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 59' 2.26" N, 8° 24' 12.14" E
Find date: 1890–1893
Find circumstances: excavation
Finder: Enrico Bianchetti
Current location: Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica "Enrico Bianchetti" (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.: 402 (325)

Inscription: VB·16 (uasekia)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 306
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 12
Solinas 1995: 130
Morandi 2004: 47

Sources: Morandi 2004: 549 f. no. 47

Images

Commentary

Image in Morandi 1999: 195, pl. 8.1 (photo = Morandi 2004: tav. IX.47).

Vaso a trottola painted with three concentric white bands on the shoulder and bottom, found in the inhumation grave no. 37 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 123 f. with grave inventory); undamaged except for a fragment broken off the side. Dating from Morandi 1999: 170 following Piana Agostinetti 1972: 74, 250 f.

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.