VB·1
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| Reading in transliteration: | ṣasamos |
| Reading in original script: |     
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| Object: | VB·1 Ornavasso (bottle) |
| Position: | shoulder, outside |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Number of letters: | 7 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | late 2nd–1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Sasamos' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 305 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 11 Solinas 1995: 129 Morandi 2004: 45 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 547 no. 45 |
Images
 Inscription VB·1 from Morandi 2004
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 Detail of inscription VB·1 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966
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 Inscription VB·1 from Tibiletti Bruno 1966
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Commentary
First published in Bianchetti 1895: 117 f.
Images in Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 4 (detail photo) and 5 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 169 (drawing) and Morandi 2004: 548, fig. 11.45 (drawing).
Damaged area right before the first letter, leading to variant readings uasamos (69, 309) and sasamos (117) in Bianchetti; Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 17, 103, and Rhŷs 1913: 60 f., no. 17, have uasamos, connected by the latter with the base u̯ađ- 'servant'. Rhŷs 1914: 26 prefers sasamos, but Whatmough PID 305 reverts to uasamos (also Pisani 1964: 284, no. 120); sasamos confirmed by Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 8 (with discussion of the letter forms 6–8, see also Tibiletti Bruno 1968c: 356, Tibiletti Bruno 1975: 49, Morandi 1999: 169, no. 13).
See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 65, 272, tav. XXXI.9, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 35, in IV Morandi 1999b: 302 f., no. 1.
Bibliography
| Bianchetti 1895 | Enrico Bianchetti, I sepolcreti di Ornavasso [= Atti della Società di Archeologia e Belle Arti della provincia di Torino 6], Torino: Paravia 1895. |
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