VB·11 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	cup
Archaeological Type:	terra sigillata, Dragendorff 31
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 6.9 cm, max. diam. 19.9 cm, foot diam.8.8
Condition:	broken, repaired, incomplete
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-bis (1419)
Inscription:	VB·11 (sabi)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 314 Morandi 2004: 56
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 557 f. no. 56

Images

Cup VB·11 Ornavasso with inscription VB·11

Cup VB·11 Ornavasso

Commentary

Image in Graue 1974: Taf. 78.3 (drawing).

Large terra sigillata cup type Dragendorff 31; restored from numerous fragments, only a piece of the wall missing. No stamp can be made out. The document is mentioned in Bianchetti 1895: 69 in the list of inscriptions from Ornavasso (no. 15) as being a "piatto cavo" from tomb 153 at In Persona, which contains two other inscribed terra sigillata objects (VB·12 Ornavasso, VB·13 Ornavasso), but is not included in the inventory on p. 282 f. (or in any other grave inventory). No inventory number is written on the object; the current number appears to be secondary, grouping the object with the similar VB·13. 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 II: 140, III: 405 f.

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.