VB·3.4

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	tu??
Reading in original script:	??
Variant reading:	tuni
Object:	VB·3 Ornavasso (bottle) (Inscriptions: VB·3.1, VB·3.2, VB·3.3, VB·3.4, VB·3.5)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	2–4
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	first half of 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 5 Morandi 2004: 48 B3
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 550–552 no. 48 B3

Images

Layout of inscriptions VB·3.1–5 on the shoulder of the vase from Lejeune 1987

Inscriptions VB·3.1–5 from Morandi 2004

Inscription VB·3.4 from Solinas 1995

Top view of VB·3 Ornavasso with all five inscriptions

Inscription VB·3.4

Commentary

• Kretschmer 1905: 99, nr. 21
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 162-164, n.10
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): p. 304
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 83, n.20
• Piana Agostinetti 1972: p.272, n.12, Tav. XXXI, n.12
• Graue 1974: p. 228
• Solinas 1995: p. 375, n.128, Tavv. LXIXb, LXX a-d and LXXI a-b
• Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 69 and 145 of Volume 1 and p. 57 of Volume 2
• Morandi 1999: p. 172, n.17, Pl. IX, 1
• Morandi 1999b: pp. 308-312, n.4

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.
Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.