AO·1.1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	ap
Reading in original script:
Object:	AO·1 Aosta (bowl) (Inscriptions: AO·1.1, AO·1.2)
Position:	unknown
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	2
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	unknown
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1 [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–early 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 43 a
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 546 no. 43 a

Images

Patera AO·1 Aosta, reconstructed form and the two fragments with inscriptions AO·1.1 and AO·1.2

Commentary

First published in Morandi 2004.

Image in Mollo Mezzena 1982: 212, fig. 9 above (drawing = Mollo Mezzena 1994: 159, fig. 19a).

Two letters inscribed on one of the patera fragments. Reading according to Morandi, based on the drawing. In the drawing, it looks like no letters come before or after, but it may be possible that AO·1.2 is part of the same inscription. Otherwise, possibly an abbreviation of a personal name; see the word page.

Corinna Salomon