VB·4 Ornavasso


Classification:	bottle
Archaeological Type:	fiasca a trottola, Kreiselflasche
Material:	pottery
Size:
Extension (h):	14.4 cm5.669291 in
Diameter (max.):	21.1 cm8.307087 in
Condition:	complete

Archaeological Culture:	La Tène D 1
Date:	Graue II, beginning of 1^st century BC
Date derived from:

Site:	Ornavasso (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italy)
Field Name:	San Bernardo
Archaeological context:	grave 105
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 58' 8" N, 8° 24' 59" ELatitude: 45.968907 Longitude: 8.416259 [from site]
Find Date:	unknown
Current Location:	Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania Pallanza)
Inventory Nr.:	562

Inscription:	VB·4 (atios)

Alternative Sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 308 Solinas 1994: 132 Morandi 2004: 49

Sources:	Morandi 2004: 553 & 787 (pl. X.49) Morandi 1999: 172-173 & fn. 74 Solinas 1995: 376-377

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Bottle VB·4 Ornavasso

Dating:

The grave also contained a coin of P. Maenius Antiocus, coined in the year 136 BC, and two Roman asses (cf. Morandi 2004: 553, Morandi 1999: 172 fn. 74 (differing informations!))
Piana Agostinetti 1972: 116

Morandi 1999	Alessandro Morandi, "Epigrafia vascolare celtica fra Ticino e Como", Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 77 (1999), 151-204.
Morandi 2004	Alessandro Morandi, Celti d'Italia. A cura di Paola Piana Agostinetti. Tomo II: Epigrafia e lingua dei Celti d'Italia [= Popoli e civiltà dell'Italia antica 12.2], Roma: Spazio Tre 2004.
Piana Agostinetti 1972	Paola Piana Agostinetti, Documenti per la Protostoria della Val d'Ossola, Milano: 1972.
Solinas 1994	Patrizia Solinas, "Il Celtico in Italia", Studi Etruschi 60 (1994 [1995]), 311-408.
Whatmough 1933	Joshua Whatmough, The Prae-Italic Dialects of Italy. Vol. 2, Part 3: The Raetic, Lepontic, Gallic, East-Italic, Messapic and Sicel inscriptions, Cambridge/Mass.: Harvard University Press 1933.