NO·17.2

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	uinoc.faui
Reading in original script:
Object:	NO·17 Oleggio (bowl) (Inscriptions: NO·17.1, NO·17.2)
Position:	outside
Orientation:	180°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	Latin script
Number of letters:	9
Number of words:	2
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	Augustan, Tiberian [from object]
Date of inscription:	first quarter of 1st c. AD [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	prob. Latin
Meaning:	'... of Favius' (?)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 93 B
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 581

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1999: 391, no. 13.

Images in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 217, fig. 227.2 (drawing = Gambari 1999: 393, fig. 417.13), Gambari 1999: 391, fig. 414 (photo).

Inscribed upside-down on the bottom of the bowl near the rim of the foot. faui probably the genitive of a Latin name; uinoc unclear. Gambari and Morandi consider a connection with Celtic u̯indo-, but /d/ would be written in the Latin alphabet. If it is an abbreviated name, faui could be a genitival patronym (Morandi, cf. PV·5). Cf. the possible abbreviation NO·12 uin, from a similar timeframe and also on terra sigillata.

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.