VB·13 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	cup
Archaeological Type:	terra sigillata, Dragendorff 31
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 6.4 cm, max. diam. 19.5 cm, foot diam. 9.6 cm
Condition:	complete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	Roman imperial period
Date:	second half of the 1st c. AD
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	In Persona
Archaeological context:	grave 153 (Objects: VB·11 Ornavasso, VB·12 Ornavasso, VB·13 Ornavasso)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 4.60" N, 8° 24' 4.25" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	2005 (1419)
Inscription:	VB·13 (p:pusionis)
Stamp:	L·M·V
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 315 Morandi 2004: 57 bis
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 559 no. 57 bis

Images

Cup VB·13 Ornavasso

Cop VB·13 Ornavasso with pottery stamp

Pottery stamp on the cup VB·13 Ornavasso

Commentary

Image in Graue 1974: Taf. 78.5 (drawing).

Large, completely preserved terra sigillata cup type Dragendorff 31, found in the inhumation grave no. 153 of the In Persona necropolis, together with VB·11 Ornavasso and VB·12 Ornavasso (see Bianchetti 1895: 282 f. with the grave inventory). The stamp on the inside bottom is that of L. Mag() Vir(), a potter(y) active in the Po valley between 40 and 120 AD (OCK no. 1085); it is the same as on VB·12 Ornavasso. Grave inventory, including an as of Vespasian (71 AD), and object dated to Graue VI. See also Graue 1974: 143, 149, 271, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 I: 69, 283, tav. XII, 25, 27, II: 140, III: 405.

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.