VB·4
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Reading in transliteration: | atios |
Reading in original script: | |
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Object: | VB·4 Ornavasso (bottle) |
Position: | shoulder, outside |
Orientation: | 0° |
Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
Letter height: | 0.4 cm0.157 in <br /> |
Number of letters: | 5 |
Number of words: | 1 |
Number of lines: | 1 |
Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
Condition: | complete, damaged |
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Archaeological culture: | La Tène D [from object] |
Date of inscription: | first half of 1st c. BC [from object] |
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Type: | unknown |
Language: | Celtic |
Meaning: | 'Atios' |
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Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 308 Solinas 1995: 132 Morandi 2004: 49 |
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Sources: | Morandi 2004: 553 no. 49 |
Images
Commentary
First published in Bianchetti 1895: 67 (no. 4), 154. Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.
Images in Morandi 1999: 173 (drawing) and Morandi 2004: 548, fig. 11.45 (drawing).
Inscribed in very small letters on the shoulder of the flask, between neck and the white band (length 1.5 cm). Despite the smallness, the letters are well legible with the exception of final sigma, in whose place a rough oval is left. The letter may have had three or four bars and either orientation (Bianchetti: , Morandi 2004: ); we suggest a retrograde four-bar variant as in VB·1 and VB·16.
The sequence atios is a personal name in the nominative, either that of the deceased or of a previous owner of the vessel.
See also Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 4, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 4, Whatmough PID: 114, no. 308, Pisani 1964: 284, no. 120, Solinas 1995: 376 f., no. 132, Morandi 1999: 172 f., no. 18, Piana Agostinetti 1972: 83, 272, n. 8, Tav. XXXI.3, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 63, in IV Morandi 1999b: 314 f., no. 5.
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. |
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