VB·16 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 16.5 cm, max. diam. 26.6 cm, foot diam. 11.4 cm, mouth diam. 3.2 cm
Condition:	complete, broken, repaired
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D
Date:	first half of 1st c. BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	San Bernardo
Archaeological context:	grave 37
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 2.26" N, 8° 24' 12.14" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	402 (325)
Inscription:	VB·16 (uasekia)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 306 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 12 Solinas 1995: 130 Morandi 2004: 47
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 549 f. no. 47

Images

Bottle VB·16 Ornavasso from Morandi 1999

Detail of VB·16 Ornavasso with inscription VB·16

Commentary

Images in Piana Agostinetti 1972: 74, fig. 44.5 (drawing), Morandi 1999: 195, pl. 8.1 (photo = Morandi 2004: tav. IX.47).

Vaso a trottola painted with three concentric white bands on the shoulder and bottom, found in the inhumation grave no. 37 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 123 f. with grave inventory); undamaged except for a fragment broken off the side. Grave inventory dated to Graue II. See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 73 f., Graue 1974: 221, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: ?.

Corinna Salomon

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.