VA·1.2
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| Reading in transliteration: | ur |
| Reading in original script: |  
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| Variant reading: | tu  15 |
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| Object: | VA·1 Ardena (bottle) (Inscriptions: VA·1.1, VA·1.2) |
| Position: | shoulder, outside |
| Direction of writing: | ambiguous |
| Script: | unknown |
| Letter height: | 1–2.3 cm0.394 in <br />0.906 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 2 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène C 2 [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | first half of 2nd c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | unknown |
| Meaning: | unknown |
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| Alternative sigla: | Solinas 1995: 113 1 Morandi 2004: 41 B |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 544 f. no. 41 B |
Images
 Inscription VA·1.2 from Morandi 1999
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 Inscription VA·1.2 from Morandi 2004
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 Inscription VA·1.2 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966
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 Bottle VA·1 Ardena with inscription VA·1.2
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 Inscription VA·1.2
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Commentary
First published in Bertolone 1941: 27 f. Examined for LexLep on 27th January 2022.
Images in Bertolone 1941: 28, fig. 5 (drawing), Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 17 (photo and drawing), Morandi 1999: 173 (drawing) and pl. X.3 (photo), Morandi 2004: 548, fig. 11.41 (drawing), Rapi 2009b: 213, fig. 1 (photo) and 214, fig. 2 (drawing).
Inscribed on the shoulder of the bottle (length 1.3 cm). The rightmost character consists of two scratches forming , cut as deeply as those of the other character and creating a character of the same height, prolonged more faintly on top. ur is preferred by Rapi 2009b: 214. Morandi 1999: 173 f., no. 19 considers tu (sinistroverse, as opposed to equally possible dextroverse ut), which is also attested otherwise in the corpus (also Morandi 2004: 545, no. 41 B). The reasoning behind śu suggested by Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 20 f. (see also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 149, Solinas 1995: 369, no. 113,1) is unclear to me. In any case, the inscription is most probably a non-language-encoding mark, or possibly a numeral '15'.
Bibliography
| Bertolone 1941 | Mario Bertolone, "Nuove scoperte archeologiche della provincia di Varese", Rivista Archeologica dell'Antica Provincia e Diocesi di Como 123–124 (1940 [1941]), 21–36. |
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