VA·9

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	au
Reading in original script:
Object:	VA·9 Somma Lombardo (cup)
Position:	bottom, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	ambiguous
Script:	unknown
Number of letters:	2
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D [from object]
Date of inscription:	mid-2nd–1st c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Morandi 2004: 109
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 597 f. no. 109

Images

Cup VA·9 Somma Lombardo with inscription VA·9 from Simone

Commentary

First published in Simone 1986: 102 sub c.

Image in Simone 1986: 103, tav. 1 c (drawing).

The reading au is tentatively suggested by Morandi based on the very small drawing of the graffito in Simone; Morandi thinks that the two even smaller chevrons indicated in the drawing at a little distance from the first may be a repetition of the same two characters. As Morandi himself observes, Latin influence would have to be assumed for alpha; this conflicts with inverted upsilon, atypical for both Lepontic and Latin alphabet. The characters are most likely non-script marks; cf. the olla bearing a single mark on the wall from the same grave (Simone 1986: 102 sub g). Also from the same grave VA·7 and VA·8.

Also mentioned in Solinas 1995: 385.

Corinna Salomon