CAVI Lemma: PYXIS WITH LID. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. LATE EIGHTH.
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED. TWO PAIRS OF TIE HOLES.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE LID AND THE RIM: ONE PAIR OF TIE HOLES: STRAIGHT GR. LINES. THE OTHER
PAIR HAS Χ.
CAVI Comments: "THE CROSSES AND BARS INCISED ON THE RIMS AND LIDS OF PYXIDES OF THE LAST
QUARTER OF THE EIGHTH CENTURY (AS XVI 1, FIG. 50) DO NOT NECESSARILY IMPLY A
KNOWLEDGE OF WRITING, AND CERTAINLY CANNOT BE INTERPRETED AS DEMONSTRATING ANY
KNOWLEDGE OF ALPHABETIC WRITING. THEY ARE SIMPLY CONVENIENT SYMBOLS [OF THE
POTTERS] WHO USED THEM TO MARK THE CORRESPONDING PARTS OF THE VASE AND ITS LID."
(YOUNG). BUT WRITING WAS KNOWN IN THE LATE EIGHTH CNETURY.
CAVI Number: 0324
AVI Bibliography: YOUNG (1939A), 76/XVI 1, FIGS. 49-50 (PHOT.). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 5.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
