NO·5

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	pẹnilas
Reading in original script:	unknown
Object:	NO·5 Oleggio (bowl)
Position:	bottom, outside
Direction of writing:	unknown
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	7
Number of words:	1
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:	prob. Celtic
Meaning:	'of Penila'
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 81
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 575

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1999: 388, no. 2.

Image in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 121, fig. 102.15 (drawing = Gambari 1999: 393, fig. 417.2).

Inscribed on the bottom of the bowl near the rim of the foot; Gambari says sinistroverse, Morandi dextroverse, the drawing shows mixed orientation of the letters. Reading penilas from Gambari, a feminine name in the genitive, conceivably that of the owner of the vessel and maybe of the person 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.