VB·3.3

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	lutou : iiii
Reading in original script:
Variant reading:	lutou:iu, lutou:i:u (Solinas)
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:	5–7
Number of words:	2
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:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Syntactic analysis:	-
Meaning:	unknown
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 3 Morandi 2004: 48 B2
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 550-552 & 566 (fig. 12.48) Solinas 1995: 375

Images

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

Inscriptions VB·3.3 lutou : iii, VB·3.4 tu??, VB·3.5 enu

Detail of inscription VB·3.3 lutou : iiii

Inscription VB·3.3 lutou : iiii

Commentary

• Kretschmer 1905: p. 99, nr. 21
• Tibiletti Bruno 1978: p. 146
• Tibiletti Bruno 1981: pp. 162-164, n.10
• Whatmough 1933 (PID): p. 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

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.