VB·3.4

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 1^st 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

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 69, 145, no. ?.

Images in Lejeune 1987: pl. XIIIc (photo = Solinas 1995: tav. LXXIb), Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.48 (drawing).

Kretschmer 1905: 99, no. 21 (tuni :), Rhŷs 1913: 62, no. 20 (b) (tuni:), Whatmough 1933: 111–113, no. 304 (d) (tuni:), Pisani 1964: 286 f., no. 124 (d) (etninou . ealutou : iutuni :, see also Lejeune 1971: 74, n. 259), Lejeune 1987: 479, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144–146 (tuni:) (also Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162–164, no. 10), Solinas 1995: 375, no. 128 2 (tu[), Morandi 2004: 550–552 no. 48 B1 (tuni).

See also Giussani 1902: 55 f., Piana Agostinetti 1972: 272, no. 12, tav. XXXI.12, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 57, in IV Morandi 1999b: 308–312, no. 4.

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.