VB·2

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	oletuamaśilu§
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·2 Ornavasso (bottle)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	12
Number of words:	2
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:	Lepontic
Meaning:	'Oletu the Amaśilan' (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 307 Solinas 1995: 131 Morandi 2004: 46
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 549 no. 46

Images

Inscription VB·2 from Morandi 2004

Detail of bottle VB·2 Ornavasso with inscription VB·2 from Solinas 1995

Detail of bottle VB·2 Ornavasso with inscription VB·2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966

Inscription VB·2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966

Inscription VB·2

Commentary

Does white band serve as bottom line? In that case, the descenders of san could be accidental, and this would be an instance of san1. Cp. also the shape of U at the end of amaśilu; it has the same non-sensical descenders as san; so quite certainly san1 intended. oletu added later to the inscription? cf.

• Tibiletti Bruno 1966: pp. 12-15 (corrected wrong reading in Whatmough 1933: 307, cf. Morandi 1999: 170, fn. 68, Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: 356)
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 144-145
• Motta 1983: 65, fn. 24
• De Hoz 1990: 320
• Eska 1995: 43-44 γ
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 307
• Kretschmer 1905: p. 98, n.19
• Rhŷs 1914: p. 340, Tav. V
• Piana Agostinetti 1972: pp. 69 und 272, Tav. XXXI, n.11
• Graue 1974: p. 220
• Solinas 1995: p. 376, n.131, Tav. LXXII
• Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 69, 117 and 309 of Volume 1 and p. 199 of Volume 2
• Morandi 1999b: pp. 304-306, n.2
• Morandi 1999: 170, fn. 67 (last character)

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.
Danielsson 1909	Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909.
De Hoz 1990	Javier de Hoz, "El genitivo celtico de los temas en -o-", in: Francisco Villar (ed.), Studia indogermanica et palaeohispanica in honorem Antonio Tovar et Luis Michelena, Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1990, 315–329.
Eska 1995	Joseph F. Eska, "Observations on the thematic genitive singular in Lepontic and Hispano-Celtic", in: Joseph F. Eska, R. Geraint Gruffydd, Nicolas Jacobs (eds), Hispano-Gallo-Brittonica. Essays in honour of Professor D. Ellis Evans on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday, Cardiff: University of Wales Press 1995, 33–46.