CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. PROVIDENCE PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A GODDESS (HERA) WITH PHIALE AND SCEPTER, AT AN ALTAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: καλος Ε(υ)αιον{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} ARV[2] 643 PRINTS Ελαιον, IN ATTIC LETTERS, BUT SAYS: "THE NAME MAY BE
EUAION, ALTHOUGH IN BOTH VASES [LYONS AND SYRACUSE] THE SECOND LETTER OF THE
NAME IS WRITTEN LIKE A LAMBDA." ON P. 1579 B. SAYS: "I HAVE KEPT NOS. 1 AND 2
UNDER `EUAION,' BUT THE SECOND LETTER OF THE NAME IS WRITTEN LIKE AN OLD LAMBDA,
AND ELAION, WHICH ORSI READ IN [SYRACUSE 21,146], IS A POSSIBLE NAME. [BUT IT IS
NOT IN PAPE, PA OR LGPN II.]
CAVI Comments: CF. SYRACUSE 21,146, ARV[2] 642/115, WHICH HAS THE SAME INSCRIPTION. THE
UPSILON RESEMBLES AN ATTIC LAMBDA.
CAVI Number: 4873
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 643/116, 1579.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
