VB·1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	ṣasamos
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·1 Ornavasso (bottle)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Sasamos'
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 305 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 11 Solinas 1995: 129 Morandi 2004: 45
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 547 no. 45

Images

Inscription VB·1 from Morandi 2004

Detail of inscription VB·1 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966

Inscription VB·1 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 117 f.

Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 4 (detail photo) and 5 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 548, fig. 11.45 (drawing).

Read vasamos by Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 17, 103, and Rhŷs 1913: 59 f., no. 17, who connected it with the base u̯ađ- 'servant'.

• Tibiletti Bruno 1966: p. 3-12 (Correct reading, Whatmough's edition contains a mistake, cf. Whatmough 1933: 305, Morandi 1999: 169, fn. 65)
• Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: p. 356
• Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 49 (typology M)
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: p. 165, n.11
• Piana Agostinetti 1972: pp. 65 and 272, Tav. XXXI, n.9
• Graue 1974: p. 219
• Solinas 1995: p.375, n.129 ("missing")
• Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 69-117 and 309 of Volume 1 and p. 35 of Volume 2
• Morandi 1999: p. 169, n.13, Pl. VII,1
• Morandi 1999b: pp. 302-303, n.1

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.