NO·12

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	uin
Reading in original script:
Object:	NO·12 Oleggio (cup)
Position:	foot, outside
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	Latin script
Number of letters:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Roman imperial period [from object]
Date of inscription:	second quarter of 1st c. AD [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 88
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 579

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1999: 390, no. 8.

Images in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 98, fig. 73.5 (drawing), Gambari 1999: 393, fig. 417.8b (drawing).

Inscribed on the foot of the cup, possibly an abbreviation of a (Celtic?) name (see the word page). Cf. NO·17.2 uinoc, from a similar timeframe and also on terra sigillata, and NO·11 from the same grave.

Bibliography

Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999	Angela Deodato, Elena Poletti Ecclesia, "Catalogo", in: Giuseppina Spagnolo Garzoli (ed.), Conubia gentium. La necropoli di Oleggio e la romanizzazione dei Vertamocori. Oleggio, Palazzo Bellini 23 gennaio - 30 aprile 1999, Torino: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologica del Piemonte 1999, 55–286.