MI·15
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| Reading in transliteration: | seuuonis |
| Reading in original script: |      
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| Object: | MI·15 Parabiago (pitcher) |
| Position: | shoulder, outside |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 0.8–1.5 cm0.315 in <br />0.591 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 7–8 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D 2, Augustan, Tiberian [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | second half of 1st c. BC–early 1st c. AD [from object] |
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| Type: | prob. mark of possessor |
| Language: | Latin |
| Meaning: | 'of Seuuō' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Morandi 2004: 282 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 709 no. 282 |
Images
 Olpe MI·15 Parabiago with inscription MI·15
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 Inscription MI·15
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Commentary
First published in Volonté 1993b: 42. Examined for LexLep on 25th January 2022.
Image in Volonté 1993: tav. VIII.2 (photo).
Inscribed in neat and hardly damaged letters on the shoulder of the olpe (length 7 cm), dextroverse and in Latin script; the letters are traced with white paint. Volonté reads S IIVVONIS, an accurate representation of the characters. Morandi's reading semonis, in which the two verticals after initial sigma are taken as cursive Latin epsilon , is more plausible linguistically, but his suggestion that the two chevrons in the middle, which do not touch, represent inverted mu 
(cf. only Camunoid BS·3.2) is hard to accept. In any case, seuuonis finds better Celtic comparanda than semonis (see the word page). The form appears to be a Latin genitive of a Latinised seuu̯ō (← Celtic seuu̯ū).
