NO·4

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	tutiọ[
Reading in original script:	[
Object:	NO·4 Oleggio (bottle)
Position:	bottom, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	5
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	fragmentary
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C 2 [from object]
Date of inscription:	third quarter of 2nd c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	Celtic
Meaning:	'Tutio°'
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 80
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 575

Images

Drawing of inscription NO·4 from Morandi 2004

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1999: 387 f., no. 1.

Images in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 265, fig. 299.8 (drawing = Gambari 1999: 393, fig. 417.1),Gambari 1999: 388, fig. 410 (photo), Morandi 2004: 576, fig. 13.80 (drawing).

Inscribed on the bottom of the flask just below its widest part. The direction and orientation are ambiguous with regard to the letter forms, but the ductus shows that the inscription was applied dextroverse (cf. Gambari). Only a small section is left of omicron. Gambari and Morandi compare toutiopouos, but see the word page on the root vowel. The inscription is the earliest at the Loreto necropolis, conceivably recording the name of the (male) person who was buried in the 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. Catalogo della mostra Oleggio, Palazzo Bellini 23 gennaio - 30 aprile 1999, Torino: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologica del Piemonte 1999, 55–286.