VB·3 Ornavasso
From Lexicon Leponticum
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| Classification: | bottle |
| Archaeological Type: | fiasca a trottola, Kreiselflasche |
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| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | |
| Extension (h): | 13.8 cm5.433 in <br /> |
| Diameter (max.): | 20.8 cm8.189 in <br /> |
| Colour: | brown |
| Ornament: | |
| Manner: | painted |
| Design: | concentric white bands |
| Condition: | complete, repaired |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D 1 |
| Date: | end of 2nd century BC / beginning of 1st century BC |
| Date derived from: | typology, archaeological context |
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| Site: | Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy) |
| Field name: | San Bernardo |
| Archaeological context: | grave 84 |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 58' 8.40" N, 8° 24' 57.60" E [from site] |
| Find date: | end of 19th century |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Finder: | Enrico Bianchetti (archaeological director) |
| Current location: | Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania Pallanza) |
| Inventory no.: | 499 |
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| Inscriptions: | |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 Morandi 2004: 48 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 550-553 & 787 (pl. X.48) Morandi 1999: 172 & fn. 72 Solinas 1995: 375 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162-164 |
Images
 Bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscription VB·3 from Morandi 1999
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 Detail of bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscriptions VB·3.1 and VB·3.2 from Solinas 1995
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Commentary
Dating:
- Divergent object date: "1st century BC (Augustan era) after a triobol of Massalia with rikoi legend (i.e. NM·5) that is attested from 80 BC to 14 AD" (Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162)
- Giussani 1902: 55-57
- Piana Agostinetti 1972: 104, 249-250
- Lejeune 1987: 493-509
