VB·8 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 18 cm, max. diam. 24.8 cm, foot diam. 11.8 cm, mouth diam. 3.8 cm
Condition:	complete, broken, repaired
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	La Tène C 2
Date:	late 2nd c. BC
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	San Bernardo
Archaeological context:	grave 51
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 2.51" N, 8° 24' 12.25" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	469 (385)
Inscription:	VB·8 (sa)
Alternative sigla:	Solinas 1995: 138 Morandi 2004: 53
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 555 no. 53

Images

Flask VB·8 Ornavasso

Inscription VB·8 and painted band

Commentary

Images in Piana Agostinetti 1972: 83, fig. 57.1 (drawing), Graue 1974: Taf. 27.7 (drawing).

Vaso a trottola of reddish clay decorated with painted white patterned bands, found in the inhumation grave no. 51 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 131 with grave inventory); completely reassembled from multiple fragments. Grave inventory dated to Graue I. See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 83 f., Graue 1974: 103, 223 f., Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 64, III: 140 f., 469.

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.