BG·25
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| Reading in transliteration: | art |
| Reading in original script: |   
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| Object: | BG·25 Fornovo San Giovanni (cup) |
| Position: | bottom, inside |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 3 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 2nd–early 1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | prob. mark of manufacturer |
| Language: | prob. Celtic |
| Meaning: | abbreviation (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 228 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 666 no. 228 |
Images
 Inscription BG·25 from Morandi
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Commentary
First published in Morandi 2004: 666, no. 228.
Images in Fortunati Zuccàla 1998: tav. XXIX, fig. 10 (photo), Morandi 2004: 667, fig. 26.228 (drawing), Morandi 2007: 303, fig. 303 (photo; said there to be an image of BG·24).
One of two attestations of the sequence art on black-glazed ware from the same grave in the Brolo necropolis – a manufacturer's mark? The two inscriptions differ only slightly in the execution of alpha and rho, which is neater in the present inscription. Morandi assumes an abbreviation of a personal name in art- (see the word page). The same sequence is also attested at Bergamo (BG·6), but that object is not black-glazed ware and dated earlier than the ones from Fornovo San Giovanni, and the inscription is applied on the outside.
Bibliography
| Fortunati Zuccàla 1998 | Maria Fortunati Zuccàla, "Il territorio bergamasco e il dualismo montagna-pianura: osservazioni sulle presenze archeologiche", Rassegna di Studi del Civico Museo Archeologico e del Civico Gabinetto Numismatico di Milano 66–67 (1998), 67–91. |
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