VB·15 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification: unidentifiable potsherd

Material: pottery
Size: fragment 9.8 x 7.9 cm, foot diam. 6.9 cm
Condition: fragmentary
Autopsy by: Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy: Apr 20 2024

Archaeological culture: Roman imperial period
Date: 55–90 AD

Site: Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: In Persona
Archaeological context: grave 143
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 59' 4.64" N, 8° 24' 3.86" E
Find date: 1890–1893
Find circumstances: excavation
Finder: Enrico Bianchetti
Current location: Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica "Enrico Bianchetti" (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.: 1956 (1440)

Inscription: VB·15 (onesi)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 316
Morandi 2004: 59

Sources: Morandi 2004: 560 no. 59

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Commentary

Fragment (complete foot and small sections of the bottom) of an open vessel found in the inhumation grave no. 143 of the In Persona necropolis (see Bianchetti 1895: 278 f. with the grave inventory). Bianchetti, who had more fragments than are preserved today, called the vessel a "piatto [...] rotto in molti pezzi", but the high foot (1 cm) seems to indicate a cup similar to VB·13 Ornavasso. Dating from Morandi.

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.