VB·10

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: eu
Reading in original script: E dU d
Variant reading: eui
E dU dI d

Object: VB·10 Ornavasso (bowl)
Position: bottom, outside
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: prob. North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters: 2–3
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: unknown

Archaeological culture: unknown [from object]
Date of inscription: late 2nd c. BC [from object]

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

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 312 bis
Solinas 1995: 137
Morandi 2004: 55

Sources: Morandi 2004: 556 no. 55

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 68 (no. 8), 188.

Inscribed on the outside bottom near the foot according to Morandi 2004. Bianchetti read eu as in VB·9 (also Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 8, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 8); Whatmough PID 116 f., no. 312 bis read ea (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144; Solinas 1995: 378, no. 137 gives both options). According to Morandi 2004, the putative bar of alpha is a "segmento obliquo" connected to upsilon, which he tentatively identifies as iota (eui).

See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 271, tav. XXXI.2, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 94, n. 1060, III: 246 f., n. 1060, in IV Morandi 1999b: 319, no. 10.

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.