CAVI Lemma: FR. OF SPOUTED PLASTIC VASE (AIDOION). FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. EARLY
FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: FR. OF SPOUT IN THE FORM OF A PHALLOS.
CAVI Inscriptions: GR. "IN THE DRY CLAY": Κερκιω[.]{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO HESP. BUT IT COULD BE COMPLETE: Κερκιω = Κερκιο (GEN.), AN OWNER'S
INSCRIPTION. THE VASE APPROPRIATE TO THE OWNER'S NAME. LGPN II READS Κερκιος.
PROBABLY AFTER FIRING. THE OMEGA IS RECTANGULAR.
CAVI Comments: VANDERPOOL NOTES THAT THIS IS A TELLING VASE; HE RIGHTLY CITES κερκος =
PHALLOS. THE WRITING IS COARSE. FOR THE USE OF OMEGA V. COMPARES AN OSTRACON OF
THEMISTOCLES, HESP. 5 (1936) 40, FIG. 39, BUT IT IS NOT CLEAR TO ME WHAT VALUE
HE GIVES TO IT.
CAVI Number: 1873
AVI Bibliography: DAVIDSON–THOMPSON (1943), 159/114, FIG. 71.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
