VB·2 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 11.5 cm, max. diam. 21.3 cm, foot diam. 9.8, mouth diam. 3 cm
Condition:	complete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1
Date:	late 2nd–early 1st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	San Bernardo
Archaeological context:	grave 32
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 2.13" N, 8° 24' 12.09" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	356 (290)
Inscription:	VB·2 (oletuamaśilu)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 307 Solinas 1995: 131 Morandi 2004: 46
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 549 no. 46

Images

Bottle VB·2 Ornavasso from Morandi 1999

Detail of bottle VB·2 Ornavasso with inscription VB·2 from Solinas 1995

Detail of bottle VB·2 Ornavasso with inscription VB·2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966

Flask VB·2 Ornavasso

Commentary

Images in Rhŷs 1914: pl. V (reproduction of Bianchetti pl. XVIII.11), Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 12 (detail photo), Piana Agostinetti 1972: 69, fig. 39.8 (drawing), Graue 1974: Taf. 23 (drawing), Solinas 1995: tav. LXXII (detail photo), Morandi 1999: 194, pl. 7.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: tav. IX.46).

Vaso a trottola with one white circular band painted on the shoulder, found in the inhumation grave no. 32 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 120 with list of furniture); undamaged apart from a crack on the shoulder. Grave inventory dated to Graue II. See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 68 f., Graue 1974: 220, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 199.

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.