NO·7

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	p̣ri[
Reading in original script:	]
Variant reading:	ạri[ ]
Object:	NO·7 Oleggio (bowl)
Position:	bottom, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	3
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	incomplete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1, La Tène D 2, Augustan [from object]
Date of inscription:	1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	prob. Celtic
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 83
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 577

Commentary

First published in Gambari 1999: 388, no. 4.

Image in Deodato & Poletti Ecclesia 1999: 74, fig. 49 (T.15) (drawing = Gambari 1999: 393, fig. 417.4).

Inscribed on the bottom of the patera just below the rim; Gambari reads pri or maybe ari without referring to the break after iota which is visible in the drawing. Probably an abbreviation of a name; see the word page for Celtic 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.