VB·9

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	eu
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·9 Ornavasso (bowl)
Position:	bottom, outside
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	prob. North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	2
Number of words:	1
Number of lines:	1
Workmanship:	scratched after firing
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	unknown [from object]
Date of inscription:	late 2nd c. BC [from object]
Type:	unknown
Language:	perhaps Celtic
Meaning:	abbreviation (?)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 312 Solinas 1995: 136 Morandi 2004: 54
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 555 f. 54

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 68 (no. 8), 188.

Image in Piana Agostinetti 1972: tav. XXXI.1 (drawing).

Inscribed on the outside bottom near the foot according to Morandi 2004. Bianchetti's rendering of the original letters is inconsistent; the above rendering follows Piana Agostinetti's drawing. The short sequence eu is most likely an abbreviation of a personal name; cf. VB·10.

See also Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 8, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 8, Piana Agostinetti 1972: 271, no. 1, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144, Morandi 1999b: 319, no. 9.

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.