VB·10

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration:	eu
Reading in original script:
Object:	VB·10 Ornavasso (bowl)
Position:	bottom, outside
Direction of writing:	dextroverse
Script:	prob. North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet)
Number of letters:	2–3
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 bis Solinas 1995: 137 Morandi 2004: 55
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 556 no. 55

Commentary

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

Image in Piana Agostinetti 1972: tav. XXXI.2 (drawing).

Inscribed on the outside bottom near the foot according to Morandi 2004. The drawing by Piana Agostinetti shows an additional oblique line close to the second hasta of upsilon, which was disregarded by Bianchetti (eu as in VB·9, thus also Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 8, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 8, and Piana Agostinetti 1972: 271, no. 2). Whatmough PID 116 f., no. 312 bis read ea (also Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144; Solinas 1995: 378, no. 137 gives both options); Morandi 2004 identifies the line as iota (eui). The letter forms being identical to those in VB·9, we are inclined to assume that the line is merely a repeated scratch.

See also Morandi 1999b: 319, no. 10.

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.