VA·1.2

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	ur
Reading in original script:
Variant reading:	tu 15
Object:	VA·1 Ardena (bottle) (Inscriptions: VA·1.1, VA·1.2)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Script:	unknown
Letter height:	1–2.3 cm0.394 in <br />0.906 in <br />
Number of letters:	2
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	first half of 2nd c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 113 1 Morandi 2004: 41 B
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 544 f. no. 41 B

Images

Inscription VA·1.2 from Morandi 1999

Inscription VA·1.2 from Morandi 2004

Inscription VA·1.2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966

Bottle VA·1 Ardena with inscription VA·1.2

Inscription VA·1.2

Commentary

First published in Bertolone 1941: 27 f. Examined for LexLep on 27^th January 2022.

Images in Bertolone 1941: 28, fig. 5 (drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 17 (photo and drawing), Morandi 1999: 173 (drawing) and pl. X.3 (photo), Morandi 2004: 548, fig. 11.41 (drawing), Rapi 2009b: 213, fig. 1 (photo) and 214, fig. 2 (drawing).

Inscribed on the shoulder of the bottle (length 1.3 cm). The rightmost character consists of two scratches forming , cut as deeply as those of the other character and creating a character of the same height, prolonged more faintly on top. ur is preferred by Rapi 2009b: 214. Morandi 1999: 173 f., no. 19 considers tu (sinistroverse, as opposed to equally possible dextroverse ut), which is also attested otherwise in the corpus (also Morandi 2004: 545, no. 41 B). The reasoning behind śu suggested by Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 20 f. (see also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 149, Solinas 1995: 369, no. 113,1) is unclear to me. In any case, the inscription is most probably a non-language-encoding mark, or possibly a numeral '15'.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Bertolone 1941	Mario Bertolone, "Nuove scoperte archeologiche della provincia di Varese", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como 123–124 (1940 [1941]), 21–36.