BG·24

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	art
Reading in original script:
Object:	BG·24 Fornovo San Giovanni (bowl)
Position:	bottom, inside
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–early 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	prob. mark of manufacturer
Language:	prob. Celtic
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 227
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 666 no. 227

Images

Inscription BG·24 from Morandi

Commentary

First published in Morandi 2004: 666, no. 227.

Images in Fortunati Zuccàla 1998: tav. XXVIII, fig. 8 (photo), Morandi 2004: 667, fig. 26.227 (drawing).

Rho One of two attestations of the sequence art on black-glazed ware from the same grave in the Brolo necropolis – a manufacturer's mark? The two inscriptions differ only slightly, in that the present one is executed more roughly: the hasta of alpha is somewhat prolonged at the top, the pocket of rho is executed with three straight scratches rather than a smooth curve. Morandi assumes an abbreviation of a personal name in art- (see the word page). The same sequence is also attested at Bergamo (BG·6), but that object is not black-glazed ware and dated earlier than the ones from Fornovo San Giovanni, and the inscription is applied on the outside.

See also Morandi 2007: 303 (no. 36).

Corinna Salomon

Bibliography

Fortunati Zuccàla 1998	Maria Fortunati Zuccàla, "Il territorio bergamasco e il dualismo montagna-pianura: osservazioni sulle presenze archeologiche", Rassegna di Studi del Civico Museo Archeologico e del Civico Gabinetto Numismatico di Milano 66–67 (1998), 67–91.