VB·19
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| Reading in transliteration: | lutu |
| Reading in original script: |   
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| Object: | VB·19 Gravellona Toce (pitcher) |
| Position: | shoulder, outside |
| Direction of writing: | dextroverse |
| Script: | North Italic script (Lepontic alphabet) |
| Letter height: | 1.2–1.7 cm0.472 in <br />0.669 in <br /> |
| Number of letters: | 4 |
| Number of words: | 1 |
| Number of lines: | 1 |
| Workmanship: | scratched after firing |
| Condition: | complete |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D 2 [from object] |
| Date of inscription: | second half of 1st c. BC [from object] |
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| Type: | unknown |
| Language: | Celtic |
| Meaning: | 'Lutu' |
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| Alternative sigla: | Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 13 Solinas 1995: 124 Morandi 2004: 62 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 561 f. no. 62 |
Images
 Inscription VB·19 from Morandi 2004
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 Olpe VB·19 Gravellona Toce with inscription VB·19
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 Detail of the olpe VB·19 Gravellona Toce with inscription VB·19
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Commentary
First published in Pattaroni 1964: 126. Examined for LexLep on 24th April 2024.
Image in Morandi 1999: 174 (drawing), Morandi 2004: 566, fig. 12.62 (drawing).
Inscribed in deeply incised and neat, if partly overlapping letters on the shoulder of the olpe (length of inscription about 4 cm). Initial lambda appears to have been executed too large, then made smaller by adding a bar higher up the hasta. Read Latin luxu by Pattaroni; reading corrected to Lepontic lutu by Tibiletti Bruno 1979: 263 with n. 35 (also Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 166, no. 13), thus also Solinas 1995: 373, no. 124, Morandi 1999: 174; see also Morandi 1999b: 321, no. 12.
