CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF lip cup. From Vulci. Unattributed. Second quarter sixth.
560-550 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: Int.: part of a bearded man running; tongue border. Lip: A: panther. B: part
of a panther.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: nonsense: imitation letters: A: seven letters{1}. B: similar:
six letters, the first faint.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} complete, according to CVA; I see only six in the photo.
CAVI Comments: Jahn 20. Broken at the end of World War II: only seven frs. remain. An early
lip cup, part of a group that has figured decoration and a tongue pattern on the
inside; see Beazley (1932), 177ff. and Schauenburg (1974), 198 n. 5. Cf. also
Munich 9412. The inscriptions start at the panthers' hind legs and run
considerably forward to right. [[“München 2171 gehört zu den verhältnismäßig
seltenen Randschalen mit figürlicher Dekoration sowohl der Innen- wie der
Außenseiten (Beazley 1932, 177ff.; ergänzend Schauenburg a.O. 198 Anm. 5; s.
auch München inv. 9412, hier Taf. 6).”, Fellmann; the last vase ist CAVI 5373]]
See also CAVI 5212 for another reading.@@[[Diameter: c.138.]]
CAVI Number: 5235
AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1932), 169 n. 15 and 180. — Schauenburg (1974), 212. — B. Fellmann,
CVA Munich 10, Germany 56 (1988), pl. 1,2-5, Beilage 1,2.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
