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:

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304
Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10
Solinas 1995: 128
Morandi 2004: 48

Sources: Morandi 2004: 550–553 no. 48

Images

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), Caramella & De Giuli 1993: tav. LXXVII.2 (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). Grave inventory, including a specimen of the Padan silver drachma NM·5 (80 BC–14 AD), which is hardly worn (Graue 1974: 19), dated to Graue II. See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 104 f., Graue 1974: 228, 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.