VB·6

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: kia
Reading in original script: K2 dI dA d

Object: VB·6 Ornavasso (bowl)
Position: bottom, outside
Orientation: 180°
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Letter height: 1.2–1.4 cm0.472 in <br />0.551 in <br />
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): 309
Solinas 1995: 133
Morandi 2004: 51

Sources: Morandi 2004: 554 no. 51

Images

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 68, 110. Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.

Image in Solinas 1995: tav. LXXIII a (photo).

Inscribed upside-down on the outside bottom of the patera near the rim (length 2.5 cm); the letters are neat and very well preserved. The short sequence kia is most likely an abbreviation of a personal name.

See also Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 9, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 9, Whatmough PID 114 f., no. 309, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144, Solinas 1995: 377, no. 133, Piana Agostinetti 1972: 56, 272, tav. XXXI.5, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 28, III: no. 243, in IV Morandi 1999b: 318, no. 7.

Corinna Salomon

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.