BG·3

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: at
Reading in original script: T sA3 s

Object: BG·3 Bergamo (bowl)
Position: bottom, outside
Orientation: 180°
Direction of writing: sinistroverse
Script: North Italic script
Number of letters: 2
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: unknown [from object]
Date of inscription: middle of 2nd to 1st century BC [from object]

Type: prob. mark of manufacturer
Language: perhaps Celtic
Meaning: abbreviation (?)

Alternative sigla: Morandi 2004: 213

Sources: Morandi 2004: 658 f. no. 213

Images

Commentary

First published in Morandi 2004: 658 f., no. 213.

Images in Morandi 2004: 656, fig. 24.213 (drawing), Casini & Motta 2018: 121, fig. 3.5 (photo and drawing).

Incised upside-down close to the rim of the foot; probably complete (Casini & Motta 2018: 120 f., no. 5 [erroneously identified as Morandi's no. 214]). Possibly a manufacturer's mark, cf. repeated art in the area of Bergamo – at is not otherwise attested in the Bergamo area, but on ceramics with similar datings at Como (CO·78) and (with alpha in the same shape) at Arsago Seprio (VA·14). Possibly an abreviation of a personal name in at-.

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Casini & Motta 2018 Stefania Casini, Filippo Motta, "Iscrizioni vascolari celtiche a Bergamo", Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi 26 (2018), 115–128.