BS·14

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	aru[
Reading in original script:	]
Object:	BS·14 Gottolengo (bowl)
Position:	bottom, outside
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	2nd c. BC [from object]
Type:	prob. mark of possessor
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'[of] Aru[k(i)os]'
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 243
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 676

Images

Drawing of inscription BS·14 from Morandi 2004

Commentary

First published in Morandi 2004: 676.

Images in Frontini 1985: tav. 6.4 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 679, fig. 27.243 (drawing), De Marinis & Motta 2007: 159, fig. 6.1 (drawing).

Inscribed on the bottom of the patera near the foot; only the first three letters are legible, but the inscription can be emended to aruki (cf. BS·12, BS·13, BS·27, BS·28 from the same grave). The form is a personal name in the genitive; the fact that it is inscribed on five ceramic objects from (probably) the same grave indicates that it is an owner's inscription.

Bibliography

De Marinis & Motta 2007	Raffaele C. de Marinis, Filippo Motta, "Iscrizioni del II e I secolo a.C. dal territorio insubre e cenomane", in: Francesca Moradini, Marina Volonté (eds), Contributi di archeologia in memoria di Mario Mirabella Roberti. Cavriana 15–16 ottobre 2005 [= Annali Benacensi 13–14], Brescia: 2007, 135–160.