VB·15
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| Reading in transliteration: | onesi |
| Reading in original script: |     
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| Object: | VB·15 Ornavasso (unidentifiable) |
| Position: | foot, inside |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 1–1.3 cm0.394 in <br />0.512 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 5 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | Roman imperial period [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 1st c. AD [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | 'of Onesos' (?) |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 316 Morandi 2004: 59 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 560 no. 59 |
Images
 Inscription VB·15 from Morandi 2004
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 Fragment VB·15 Ornavasso with inscription VB·15
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Commentary
First published in Bianchetti 1895: 68 (no. 11), 279. Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.
Image in Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.59 (drawing).
Inscribed on the inside bottom of the vessel near the centre, across two decorative concentric circles; well legible. The letters are Latin, even though the two lower bars of epsilon are obliquely pointing downward. Bianchetti and, following him, Kretschmer 1905: 98, Rhŷs 1913: 60 and Whatmough PID 117 f., no. 316, misread ]onis (cf. VB·13, VB·14); hence Morandi's assumption that the inscription had not been previously mentioned. onesi is most likely a genitive rather than an abbreviation, as common in the Latin graffiti from In Persona; the name is not evidently Celtic.
See also Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: 398 f., n. 1956 (with drawing), Morandi 1999b: 328, n. 19 (?).
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. |
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