PV·5
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| Reading in transliteration: | uecon : irumeli ps : sc : II |
| Reading in original script: |               
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| Object: | PV·5 Zerbo (cup) |
| Position: | outside, wall |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 0.08–0.15 cm0.0315 in <br />0.0591 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 16 |
| Number of words: | 5 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | pecked |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | unknown [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | 1st c. BC (?) [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Latin |
| Meaning: | 'of Ueco Irumel(i)os (?), weight 1 bes 2 scripula' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 105 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 592–594 |
Commentary
First published in Mirabella Roberti 1962: VIII, no. 940.
Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1964: tav. V, fig. 1 and 2 (photos = Clauss-Slaby = CIL Archivum Corporis Electronicum), Clauss-Slaby (drawing, source not indicated).
According to Morandi, the inscription was only found in the early 1960s after a restauration of the object. Inscribed in tiny letters formed of dots, on the outside directly beneath the rim of the cup, all from one hand according to Tibiletti Bruno 1964: 185 (with a detailed description). A discussion of the two onomastic elements ibid. 185–188: uecon seems to be abbreviated with a single dot, but not irumeli; since an abbreviation of filius is absent, TB concludes that both names are in the genitive: uecon(is) irumeli 'of Ueco Irumelius', an owner's inscription. She seems to assume that irumelius is in essence an old patronym in a not yet Latinised name formula, but in that case irumeli could as well be a genitival patronym going with an individual name in the nominative uecon(i)us. On the Latin indication of the cup's weight see p. 188: p stands for pondo 'weight', s: (s=) for bes (two thirds of a libra), sc for scrupula (1/24 of an uncia), followed by the numeral II 'two' – 218.3 g + 2 x 1.14 g = 220.6 g, about 10 g more than the damaged cup's current weight.
The name ueco° may be Celtic (cf. ueca at Levo), while irumeli may be Ligurian; see further on the word pages.
- CIL I2 3608
- Tibiletti Bruno 1964: 183–196
- Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 154
- Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 173
- AE 1965: 112
- AE 1992: 846
- Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg HD017530
Bibliography
| AE | Various authors, L'année épigraphique, Paris: 1888–. |
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| CIL | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (17 volumes, various supplements) |
