VB·3 Ornavasso
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| Classification: | bottle |
| Archaeological Type: | fiasca a trottola |
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| Material: | pottery |
| Size: | height 13.8 cm, max. diam. 20.8 cm, foot diam. 9 cm |
| Condition: | complete, repaired |
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| Archaeological culture: | La Tène D 1 |
| Date: | end of 2nd/beginning of 1st c. BC |
| Date derived from: | typology, archaeological context |
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| Site: | Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy) |
| Field name: | San Bernardo |
| Archaeological context: | grave 84 |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 45° 58' 8.40" N, 8° 24' 57.60" E [from site] |
| Find date: | 1890–1893 |
| Find circumstances: | excavation |
| Finder: | Enrico Bianchetti |
| Current location: | Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania Pallanza) |
| Inventory no.: | 499 |
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| Alternative sigla: | Whatmough 1933 (PID): 304 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 10 Solinas 1995: 128 Morandi 2004: 48 |
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| Sources: | Morandi 2004: 550–553 no. 48 |
Images
 Bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscription VB·3 from Morandi 1999
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 Detail of bottle VB·3 Ornavasso with inscriptions VB·3.1 and VB·3.2 from Solinas 1995
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Commentary
Images in Lejeune 1987: pl. XIII (photo = Solinas 1995: tav. LXIXb), Morandi 1999: pl. IX.1 (photo) = Morandi 2004: tav. X.48).
Vaso a trottola with two white circular bands painted on the shoulder, found in the inhumation grave no. 84 of the San Bernardo necropolis. Dated to the 1st century BC (Augustan era) based on a triobol of Massalia (NM·5) with legend rikoi (80 BC to 14 AD) found in the same grave (Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 162, Morandi 1999: 172, no. 17); above dating from Morandi 2004. See also Piana Agostinetti 1972: 104, 249 f.
