Decoration: A,B: COCK BETWEEN NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: 2168
Previous Collections:
Munich, Antikensammlungen: J15
Publication Record: Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1981, 337, FIG.10 (A) BEAZLEY NOTEBOOK: 76, 105.2 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNICH, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN 10, 45, BEILAGE 7.5, PL.(2748) 26.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 30, 109, FIGS.2.10, 13.3 (PART OF A) Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 404, FIG.41.8 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF lip cup. From Vulci. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Lip: A, B, each: plain. Handle zone: A: in the center, a cock in outline. B:
similar (only the rear half is preserved). No handle palmettes.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: imitation letters, on either side of the cocks: A: at left: 13
letters, among them epsilon and sigma. At right: 11 letters, among them epsilon
and Attic lambda. B: on the cock's right: 5 letters. Some letters degenerate
into horizontal strokes.
CAVI Comments: Illiterate nonsense? No incision in the cocks or elsewhere. Fellmann compares
Cambridge [G] 66 (CVA 1, pl. 19,4) with pairs of fighting cocks in the handle
zone and similar nonsense inscriptions right and left.
CAVI Number: 5234
AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1932), 183. — Schauenburg (1981), 337, fig. 10. — B. Fellmann, CVA
Munich 10, Germany 56 (1988), pl. 27,1-4, Beilage 7,5. — Vierneisel–Kaeser
(1990), figs. 2.10 (A) and 13.3 (A, detail).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
