NO·16

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	alauki : trosi
Reading in original script:
Object:	NO·16 Oleggio (cup)
Position:	bottom, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	11
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1 [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd–early 1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'of Alaukos (son) of Tros(i)os'
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 92
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 581

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1999: 390 f., no. 12.

Images in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 277, fig. 316.3 (drawing), Gambari 1999: 393, fig. 417.12 (drawing).

Inscribed halfway up on the bottom of the cup; upsilon appears to be disturbed by a break. The single-punct separator shown in both drawings (but not mentioned by Gambari) may be due to Latin influence. Both names are in the genitive, thus probably an owner's inscription with a genitival patronym (funerary according to Morandi); one of the rare two-part name formulae on pottery. See the word pages on the names' etymologies and comparanda.

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. Catalogo della mostra Oleggio, Palazzo Bellini 23 gennaio - 30 aprile 1999, Torino: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologica del Piemonte 1999, 55–286.