VA·7
From Lexicon Leponticum
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| Reading in transliteration: | ateuloipitus |
| Reading in original script: |         
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| Object: | VA·7 Somma Lombardo (bowl) |
| Position: | bottom, outside |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 12 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | mid-2nd–1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Ateuloipitus' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 107 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 596 f. no. 107 |
Images
 Inscription VA·7 from Morandi
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 Inscription VA·7 from Simone
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Commentary
First published in Simone 1986: 102 sub f.
Images in Simone 1986: 103, tav. 1 f (drawing), Morandi 2001: 11, no. 2 (drawing = [traced] Morandi 2004: 603, fig. 16.107), Morandi 2010: 51, fig. 2b (photo).
Applied close to the foot; the reading is unproblematic. Sigma is executed as a rather flat zig-zag of four lines of unequal length; see S and cf. a similar form in VA·8 from the same grave. The sequence can be interpreted as a Celtic compound personal name (see the word page). Also from the same grave VA·9.
Also mentioned in Solinas 1995: 385, Morandi 2001: 11, no. 2.
