CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. Unattributed. Date unclear.
CAVI Subject: Introduction of Heracles to Olympus: Hermes, Athena, Dionysus, Heracles,
Ares.
CAVI Inscriptions: To Hermes' right: hε^γμ(σ)^(λ){1}. Above Dionysus' head: Ιακχ(σ)ε^{2}. To
right of Heracles' back, facing him: (h)ερ^(α)κλες{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the bracketed sigma is a four-stroke sigma lying on its back; the lambda
has the `Argive' form (not a real lambda). The caduceus and a hand intervene.
{2} the bracketed sigma resembles an upside down sideways sigma, but with soft
corners. The inscription runs into an arm. {3} the heta resembles a reversed nu,
the alpha is a triangle. A spear intervenes.
CAVI Comments: Written by an illiterate: misshapen and misunderstood letters. Attic alphabet
so far as discernable.
CAVI Number: 7164
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
