VB·7 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification: cup

Material: pottery
Size: height 5.9 cm, max. diam. 14.5 cm
Condition: unknown

Archaeological culture: La Tène D 1
Date: end of 2nd / beginning of 1st c. BC

Site: Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: San Bernardo
Archaeological context: grave 102
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 58' 8.40" N, 8° 24' 57.60" E [from site]
Find date: 1890–1893
Find circumstances: excavation
Finder: Enrico Bianchetti
Current location: Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania Pallanza)
Inventory no.: 544

Inscription: VB·7 (kri)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 310
Solinas 1995: 134
Morandi 2004: 52

Sources: Morandi 2004: 554 f. no. 52

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Commentary

Truncated conical cup of reddish clay found in the inhumation grave no. 102 of the San Bernardo necropolis. Dating from Morandi.

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.