VB·4
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| Reading in transliteration: | atios |
| Reading in original script: |     
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| Object: | VB·4 Ornavasso (bottle) |
| Position: | shoulder, outside |
| Orientation: | 0° |
| Direction of writing: | sinistroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 1.5 cm0.591 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 5 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D 1 [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | beginning of 1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Atios' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 308 Solinas 1995: 132 Morandi 2004: 49 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 553 no. 49 |
Images
 Inscription VB·4 from Morandi 1999
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 Inscription VB·4 from Solinas 1995
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Commentary
First published in Bianchetti 1895: 117 f.
Images in Morandi 1999: 173 (drawing) and Morandi 2004: 548, fig. 11.45 (drawing).
All agreed on the reading and interpretation as a personal name in the nominative: Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 4, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 4, Whatmough PID: 114, no. 308, Pisani 1964: 284, no. 120, Solinas 1995: 376 f., no. 132, Morandi 1999: 172 f., no. 18. Morandi 2004: 553, no. 49 (uncertain about the exact form of sigma).
See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 83, 272, n. 8, Tav. XXXI.3, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 63, in IV Morandi 1999b: 314 f., no. 5.
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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