VB·10
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Reading in transliteration: | eu |
Reading in original script: | |
Variant reading: | eui |
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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 |
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Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
Date of inscription: | late 2nd c. BC [from object] |
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Type: | unknown |
Language: | perhaps Celtic |
Meaning: | abbreviation (?) |
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Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 312 bis Solinas 1995: 137 Morandi 2004: 55 |
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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.
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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