VB·2 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification: bottle
Archaeological Type: fiasca a trottola

Material: pottery
Size: height 11.5 cm, max. diam. 21.3 cm, foot diam. 9.8
Condition: complete

Archaeological culture: La Tène D 1
Date: end of 2nd c. BC

Site: Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: San Bernardo
Archaeological context: grave 32
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 58' 8.40" N, 8° 24' 57.60" E [from site]
Find date: 1890–1893
Find circumstances: excavation
Finder: Enrico Bianchetti
Current location: Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania Pallanza)
Inventory no.: 290

Inscription: VB·2 (oletuamaśilu§)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 307
Solinas 1995: 131
Morandi 2004: 46

Sources: Morandi 2004: 549 no. 46

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Commentary

Images in Rhŷs 1914: pl. V (reproduction of Bianchetti pl. XVIII.11), Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 12 (detail photo), Solinas 1995: tav. LXXII (detail photo), Morandi 1999: 194, pl. 7.2 (photo = Morandi 2004: tav. IX.46).

Vaso a trottola with one white circular band painted on the shoulder, found in the inhumation grave no. 32 of the San Bernardo necropolis; list of the furniture in Tibiletti Bruno 1966: 12, n. 23. On the dating Morandi 1999: 169 f., no. 12, following Piana Agostinetti 1972: 69, 250 f.

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