CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. Unattributed. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 440-430.
CAVI Subject: A: wreathed and bearded man leaning on his staff. B: a woman before a
diphros, her right arm extended (greeting the man on A).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the man's head: ει σφοδρα. B: above the woman: καλη. I.e.: ει σφοδρα
| καλη.
CAVI Comments: A small vase. Despite the position of the inscriptions, I assume these are
words spoken by the man. Alpha with horizontal cross stroke. The phi on A with a
long vertical.
CAVI Number: 4582
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 252-3. — Beazley (1927–8), 197, n. 4, 198,
fig. 5 (dr.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
