VB·3.1

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	§latumarui : sapsutai : pe : uinom : natom
Reading in original script:	§
Variant reading:	naśom (Solinas) naxom (Stifter) § § latuśarui : sapsutai : pe : uinoś : natoś
Object:	VB·3 Ornavasso (bottle) (Inscriptions: VB·3.1, VB·3.2, VB·3.3, VB·3.4, VB·3.5)
Position:	shoulder, outside
Orientation:	0°
Direction of writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic script
Number of letters:	29
Number of words:	5
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	complete
Archaeological culture:	La Tène D 1 [from object]
Date of inscription:	end of 2nd century BC / beginning of 1st century BC [from object]
Type:	dedicatory
Language:	Lepontic
Syntactic analysis:	-
Meaning:	"(for) Latumaros and Sapsuta wine (from) Naxos"
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 1 Morandi 2004: 48 A
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 550-552 & 566 (fig. 12.48) & 787 (pl. X.48) Solinas 1995: 375 & pl. 69b & pl. 70c Lejeune 1971: 74-76

Images

The five inscriptions on the "fiasca a trottola" VB·3 Ornavasso

Detail of bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscriptions VB·3.1 and VB·3.2

Detail of inscription VB·3.1 § latumarui : sapsutai : pe : uinom : natom

Commentary

• Lattes 1885-6: pp. 102-108,
• Kretschmer 1905: pp. 99-101, nr. 20
• Hirt 1917: pp. 210-211
• Lejeune 1987: pp. 493-508, fn. on p. 493
• Meid 1999: pp. 15, fn. 24,
• Lambert 1994: pp. 21,
• Pellegrini 1983: pp. 36-37,
• Tibiletti Bruno 1975: pp. 54,
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: pp. 144-146 (wrong reading),
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 162-164, n.10
• Birkhan 2005
• Whatmough 1933 (PID):304
• Rhŷs 1913: p. 83, n.20
• Piana Agostinetti 1972: p.272, n.12, Tav. XXXI, n.12
• Graue 1974: p. 228
• Solinas 1995: p. 375, n.128, Tavv. LXIXb, LXX a-d and LXXI a-b
• Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999: pp. 69 and 145 of Volume 1 and p. 57 of Volume 2
• Morandi 1999: p. 172, n.17, Pl. IX, 1
• Morandi 1999b: pp. 308-312, n.4

Bibliography

Birkhan 2005	Helmut Birkhan, "UINOM NAŚOM", in: Franziska Beutler, Wolfgang Hameter (Eds.), "Eine ganz normale Inschrift" ... Vnd ähnLiches zVm GebVrtstag von Ekkehard Weber. Festschrift zum 30. April 2005 [= Althistorisch-Epigraphische Studien 5], Wien: Eigenverlag der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Archäologie 2005, 223-228.
Graue 1974	Jörn Graue, Die Gräberfelder von Ornavasso. Eine Studie zur Chronologie der späten Latène- und frühen Kaiserzeit [= Hamburger Beiträge zur Archäologie Beiheft 1], Hamburg: Buske 1974.