VB·12 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification:	cup
Archaeological Type:	terra sigillata type Dragendorff 23
Material:	pottery
Size:	height 2.2 cm, max. diam 7.4 cm, foot diam. 6.7 cm
Condition:	broken, repaired, incomplete
Autopsy by:	Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy:	Apr 20 2024
Archaeological culture:	Roman imperial period
Date:	second half of 1st c. AD
Date derived from:	typology, archaeological context
Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name:	In Persona
Archaeological context:	grave 153 (Objects: VB·11 Ornavasso, VB·12 Ornavasso, VB·13 Ornavasso)
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 59' 4.60" N, 8° 24' 4.25" E
Find date:	1890–1893
Find circumstances:	excavation
Finder:	Enrico Bianchetti
Current location:	Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.:	2004 (1420)
Inscription:	VB·12 (cesii)
Stamp:	L·M·V
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 317 Morandi 2004: 57
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 558 no. 57

Images

Cup VB·12 Ornavasso

Cup VB·12 Ornavasso

Inscription VB·12 and pottery stamp on VB·12 Ornavasso

Commentary

Image in Graue 1974: Taf. 78.4 (drawing).

Small terra sigillata cup type Dragendorff 23 with almost vertical wall and flat bottom found in the inhumation grave no. 153 of the In Persona necropolis, together with VB·11 Ornavasso and VB·13 Ornavasso (see Bianchetti 1895: 282 f. with the grave inventory); it has been almost completely restored from numerous fragments. The wall is decorated with two pairs of grooves. The stamp on the inside bottom is that of L. Mag() Vir(), a potter(y) active in the Po valley between 40 and 120 AD (OCK no. 1085); it is the same as on VB·13 Ornavasso. Grave inventory, including an as of Vespasian (71 AD), and object dated to Graue VI. See also Graue 1974: 143, 149, 271, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 140, n. 2004, III: 404, no. 2004.

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.