VB·18
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| Reading in transliteration: | atecua |
| Reading in original script: |     
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| Object: | VB·18 Ornavasso (cup) |
| Position: | foot, outside |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | Latin script |
| Letter height: | 0.3–0.6 cm0.118 in <br />0.236 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 6 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
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| Archaeological culture: | Roman imperial period [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | second quarter of 1st c. AD [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Atecua' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 319 Morandi 2004: 61 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 561 no. 61 |
Images
 Inscription VB·18 from Morandi 2004
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 Inscription VB·18
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Commentary
First published in Bianchetti 1895: 67 (no. 2), 272. Examined for LexLep on 20th April 2024.
Images in Graue 1974: Taf. 79.5 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.61 (drawing).
Inscribed in tiny Latin letters in a slight curve on the foot of the cup (length 2.9 cm); the first and last letters are damaged by surface abrasion. Epsilon appears in its cursive variant, cf. VB·12. The second hasta of initial alpha and the hasta of tau meet, leading Bianchetti to read antecua with a ligature of alpha, nu and tau, but, as observed by Whatmough PID: 118 f., no. 319, this is probably accidental, as no other ligatures are attested at Ornavasso (except in the pottery stamps). Note, however, that the comparandum VB·27 atekua does not represent an argument against Bianchetti's reading, as 
could represent /nt/ here (cf. Danielsson 1909: 27, n. 1). atecua is a Celtic name in the nominative; see further on the word page.
See also Rhŷs 1913: 60, Morandi 1999b: 325, no. 15.
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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| Danielsson 1909 | Olof August Danielsson, Zu den venetischen und lepontischen Inschriften [= Skrifter utgivna av Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala 13.1], Uppsala – Leipzig: 1909. |
