VB·3 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 13.8 cm, max. diam. 20.8 cm, foot diam. 9 cm, mouth diam. 3 cm
Condition:	complete, broken, repaired
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	first half of 1st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	San Bernardo
Archaeological context:	grave 84
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 1.77" N, 8° 24' 12.65" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	621 (499)
Inscriptions:	VB·3.1 (latumarui:sapsutai:pe:uinom:natom) VB·3.2 (inou:ea) VB·3.3 (lutou:iii) VB·3.4 (tu??) VB·3.5 (enu)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 Morandi 2004: 48
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 550–553 no. 48

Images

Bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscription VB·3 from Morandi 1999

Detail of bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscriptions VB·3.1 and VB·3.2 from Solinas 1995

Top view of VB·3 Ornavasso with all five inscriptions

Flask VB·3 Ornavasso with inscriptions VB·3.1, VB·3.2 and VB·3.5

Commentary

Images in Lejeune 1987: pl. XIII (photo = Solinas 1995: tav. LXIXb), Piana Agostinetti 1972: 104, fig. 89.6 (drawing), Graue 1974: Taf. 30.3 (drawing), Morandi 1999: pl. IX.1 (photo) = Morandi 2004: tav. X.48).

Vaso a trottola with two white circular bands painted on the shoulder, found in the inhumation grave no. 84 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 145 with grave inventory). While the grave inventory belongs typologically in Graue II (LT D1), the coin NM·5 indicates a dating between 80 BC and 14 AD; since the coin is hardly worn (Graue 1974: 19), it may have gone into the grave soon after being struck, which allows for a dating of the grave to the middle of the first half of the 1^st c. BC at the earliest. See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 104 f., Graue 1974: 228, Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162, Morandi 1999: 172, no. 17, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 57.

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.
Caramella & De Giuli 1993	Pierangelo Caramella, Alberto De Giuli, Archeologia dell'Alto Novarese, Mergozzo: Antiquarium Mergozzo 1993.