VB·7 Ornavasso

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Object
Classification: cup

Material: pottery
Size: height 5.3 cm, max. diam. 14.5 cm, foot diam. 4.3 cm
Condition: complete
Autopsy by: Corinna Salomon
Date of autopsy: Apr 20 2024

Archaeological culture: La Tène D
Date: first half of 1st c. BC
Date derived from: typology, archaeological context

Site: Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field name: San Bernardo
Archaeological context: grave 102
Coordinates (approx.): 45° 59' 1.85" N, 8° 24' 12.32" E
Find date: 1890–1893
Find circumstances: excavation
Finder: Enrico Bianchetti
Current location: Museo del Paesaggio – Sezione archeologica ‟Enrico Bianchetti” (Ornavasso)
Inventory no.: 683 (544)

Inscription: VB·7 (kri)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 310
Solinas 1995: 134
Morandi 2004: 52

Sources: Morandi 2004: 554 f. no. 52

Images

Commentary

Image in Piana Agostinetti 1972: 114, fig. 106.2 (drawing).

Truncated conical cup of reddish clay (ceramica comune) found in the inhumation grave no. 102 of the San Bernardo necropolis (Bianchetti 1895: 152 with grave inventory); fully preserved. A chevron is incised, possibly before firing, on the inside rim. Grave inventory dated to Graue II. See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 114 f., Graue 1974: 231, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 62.

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.