VB·15 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	unidentifiable potsherd
Material:	pottery
Size:	fragment 9.8 x 7.9 cm, foot diam. 6.9 cm
Condition:	fragmentary
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	Roman imperial period
Date:	1st c. AD
Date derived from:	archaeological context
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	In Persona
Archaeological context:	grave 143
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 4.64" N, 8° 24' 3.86" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	1956 (1440)
Inscription:	VB·15 (onesi)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 316 Morandi 2004: 59
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 560 no. 59

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Fragment VB·15 Ornavasso

Fragment VB·15 Ornavasso with inscription VB·15

Commentary

Fragment (complete foot and small sections of the bottom) of an open vessel found in the inhumation grave no. 143 of the In Persona necropolis (see Bianchetti 1895: 278 f. with the grave inventory). Bianchetti, who had more fragments than are preserved today, called the vessel a "piatto [...] rotto in molti pezzi", but the high foot (1 cm) seems to indicate a cup similar to VB·13 Ornavasso. The sparse inventory of the disturbed grave cannot be dated precisely. See also Graue 1974: 269, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: 398 f., n. 1956.

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.