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, damaged
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 1999: 169 (drawing) and Morandi 2004: 548, fig. 11.45 (drawing).

Damaged area right before the first letter, leading to variant readings uasamos (69, 309) and sasamos (117) in Bianchetti; Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 17, 103, and Rhŷs 1913: 60 f., no. 17, have uasamos, connected by the latter with the base u̯ađ- 'servant'. Rhŷs 1914: 26 prefers sasamos, but Whatmough PID 305 reverts to uasamos (also Pisani 1964: 284, no. 120); sasamos confirmed by Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 8 (with discussion of the letter forms 6–8, see also Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: 356, Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 49, Morandi 1999: 169, no. 13).

See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 65, 272, tav. XXXI.9, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 35, in IV Morandi 1999b: 302 f., no. 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.