VB·9

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Inscription
Reading in transliteration: eu
Reading in original script: unknown

Object: VB·9 Ornavasso (bowl)
Position: bottom, outside
Direction of writing: dextroverse
Script: unknown
Number of letters: 2
Number of words: 1
Number of lines: 1
Workmanship: scratched after firing
Condition: unknown

Archaeological culture: La Tène D 1 [from object]
Date of inscription: late 2nd c. BC [from object]

Type: unknown
Language: perhaps Celtic
Meaning: abbreviation (?)

Alternative sigla: Whatmough 1933 (PID): 312
Solinas 1995: 136
Morandi 2004: 54

Sources: Morandi 2004: 555 f. 54

Commentary

First published in Bianchetti 1895: 188.

All agreed on the reading: Kretschmer 1905: 98, no. 8, Rhŷs 1913: 60, no. 8, Whatmough PID 115 f., no. 312, Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 144, Solinas 1995: 378, no. 136.

See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 271, tav. XXXI.1, Piana Agostinetti 1997–1999 II: 94, n. 1059, III: 246 f., n. 1059, in IV Morandi 1999b: 319, no. 9.

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.