NO·6

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	sura
Reading in original script:
Object:	NO·6 Oleggio (bowl)
Position:	bottom, outside
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	4
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:	'Sura'
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 82
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 575–577

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1999: 388, no. 3.

Images in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 125, fig. 106.14 (drawing = Gambari 1999: 393, fig. 417.3), Gambari 1999: 388, fig. 411 (photo).

Inscribed on the bottom of the patera; feminine name in the nominative (see the word page for comparanda in the corpus), that of the owner and/or 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.