VB·5

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	pou
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·5 Ornavasso (bottle)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	first half of 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	prob. Celtic
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 311 Solinas 1995: 135 Morandi 2004: 50
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 553 f. no. 50

Images

Inscription VB·5 from Morandi 1999

Inscription VB·5 from Solinas 1995

Flask VB·5 Ornavasso with inscription VB·5

Detail of VB·5 Ornavasso with inscription VB·5

Commentary

• Whatmough 1933 (PID): 311
• Graue 1974: p. 222
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 82
• Piana Agostinetti 1972: pp. 78 and 272, n.6, Tav. XXXI, n.6
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 144 and 146
• Solinas 1995: p. 377, n.135, Tav. LXXIII c
• Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 68 and 127 of Volume 1 and p. 42 of Volume 2
• Morandi 1999: p. 171, n.16, Pl. VIII, 2
• Morandi 1999b: pp. 316-317

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.