Decoration: A,B: WARRIORS FIGHTING BETWEEN SPHINXES, BOEOTIAN SHIELD
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Publication Record: Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 16 (30.6.1956), PL.20, NO.92 (A, PART OF B) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 51 (14-15.3.1975), PL.22, NO.124 (A, PART OF B)
CAVI Lemma: BF band cup. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth. Ca. 540 (Cahn).
CAVI Subject: Handle zone: A: between sphinxes in lieu of handle palmettes: duel of naked
warriors (one with a Boeotian shield). B: similar.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of the duelists: nonsense inscription of 11 letters. To their
right, similar: χαι plus six nonsense letters, perhaps: χαιραιρε... . B:
similar.
CAVI Comments: Cahn says the inscriptions begin with χαι but end in nonsense, but the left
inscription on one side (B?) does not seem to start this way; the right
inscription does. The picture of the other side (A?) is too small to tell.
-Clearly an illiterate attempt to write the drinking inscription.
CAVI Number: 2110
AVI Bibliography: M&M-Auction (1956), [no.?] 92. — M&M-Auction (1975), pl. 22/124.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
