VB·1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	ṣasamos
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·1 Ornavasso (bottle)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	first half of 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Sasamos'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 305 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 11 Solinas 1995: 129 Morandi 2004: 45
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 547 no. 45

Images

Inscription VB·1 from Morandi 2004

Detail of inscription VB·1 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966

Inscription VB·1 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966

Flask VB·1 Ornavasso with inscription VB·1

Inscription VB·1

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 117 f.

Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 4 (detail photo) and 5 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 548, fig. 11.45 (drawing).

Read vasamos by Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 17, 103, and Rhŷs 1913: 59 f., no. 17, who connected it with the base u̯ađ- 'servant'.

• Tibiletti Bruno 1966: p. 3-12 (Correct reading, Whatmough's edition contains a mistake, cf. Whatmough 1933: 305, Morandi 1999: 169, fn. 65)
• Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: p. 356
• Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 49 (typology M)
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: p. 165, n.11
• Piana Agostinetti 1972: pp. 65 and 272, Tav. XXXI, n.9
• Graue 1974: p. 219
• Solinas 1995: p.375, n.129 ("missing")
• Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 69-117 and 309 of Volume 1 and p. 35 of Volume 2
• Morandi 1999: p. 169, n.13, Pl. VII,1
• Morandi 1999b: pp. 302-303, n.1

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.