VB·17
From Lexicon Leponticum
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| Reading in transliteration: | atis |
| Reading in original script: |    
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| Variant reading: | ATISS[ atiss[ius] (Tibiletti Bruno) |
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| Object: | VB·17 Ornavasso (cup) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 0.7–1.5 cm0.276 in <br />0.591 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 4 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | Roman imperial period [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | second quarter of 1st c. AD [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Syntactic analysis: | NP |
| Meaning: | name (or abbreviation of a name) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 318 Morandi 2004: 60 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 560-561 & 566 (fig. 12.60) |
Images
 Inscription VB·17 from Morandi 2004
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 Inscription VB·17
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Commentary
- Kretschmer 1905: 98, nr. 5 and p. 125
- Whatmough 1933 (PID): 318
- Graue 1974: p. 253, Tav. 59, n.9
- Tibiletti Bruno 1978: p. 145
- Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 68 and 219, Tav. XXII, 24 (with photographie of the vessel) of Volume 1, and p. 115, n.1358 of Volume 2
- Morandi 1999b: pp. 323-324, n.14
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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