CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF pyxis lid. From Athens. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Satyrs and maenads dancing between ithyphallic mules.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: Fr.a: below a mule: γιγιγιοιτ. above his back: [γιγιγι]οιτ{1}. To
his right: γιγι[---]. Fr. b: between satyr and maenad: γιπιγιοιτ. Above maenad's
arm: illegible letters. Fr. c: below a mule, upside down, perhaps: [--]τιτιοιτ.
Fr. d: below a mule: a tau remains of a row of letters.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Peek, who thinks (cf. Hampe) these are shouts to drive on the animals. He
compares Acr. 2184: νονονο, and 2569: λολοσλοσ.
CAVI Comments: Frs. a - e. Hampe thinks gigioit is the braying of a mule. [So later Peek.]
Cf. Berlin 1697. The gammas are printed as Ionic, hence I think they are
probably miswritten tau's.
CAVI Number: 1135
AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, no. 2124 (not ill.); *Peek, ibid. ii, 130. —
Hampe (1935–6), 295ff.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
