VB·10

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	eu
Reading in original script:
Variant reading:	eui
Object:	VB·10 Ornavasso (bowl)
Position:	bottom, outside
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	prob. North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	2–3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1 [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 312 bis Solinas 1995: 137 Morandi 2004: 55
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 556 no. 55

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 68 (no. 8), 188.

Inscribed on the outside bottom near the foot according to Morandi 2004. Bianchetti read eu as in VB·9 (also Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 8, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 8); Whatmough PID 116 f., no. 312 bis read ea (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144; Solinas 1995: 378, no. 137 gives both options). According to Morandi 2004, the putative bar of alpha is a "segmento obliquo" connected to upsilon, which he tentatively identifies as iota (eui).

See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 271, tav. XXXI.2, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 94, n. 1060, III: 246 f., n. 1060, in IV Morandi 1999b: 319, no. 10.

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.