CAVI Lemma: FR. OF LARGE POT OR PITHOS{1}. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. SIXTH{2}.
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED.
CAVI Inscriptions: IN THE CENTER OF THE DISK, GR.: Βλοσυς.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} ROUGHLY CUT INTO THE SHAPE OF A DISK. PROBABLY PREHISTORIC, LANG. {2} SO
LANG; V.&S. SAY THAT LATE SEVENTH OR EARLY FIFTH CENTT. CANNOT BE EXCLUDED, AS
THE DATE IS BASED ON LETTER FORMS; SEE THE COMMENT ABOVE. {3} FOR THE NUMBERS OF
THE LETTER FORMS, SEE THE CHART IN ATTSCR (1990), XXII-XXIII.
CAVI Comments: NAME-ON-SHERD. - LETTER FORMS ARE GIVEN DIFFERENTLY IN V.&S. AND LANG
(1976):(3) V.&S.: BETA 1. LAMBDA 1 WITH CURVED SHORT HASTA. OMICRON S 1. SIGMA
NEAR S 1 AND S 2. UPSILON NEAR S 4. LANG (1976), PL. 8: BETA 3, OPEN AT BOTTOM.
LAMBDA 2, SLIGHTLY BACKWARD. OMICRON S 12. SIGMA 1, ONCE WITH ATTEMPTED CURVE S
1). UPSILON S 2. SINCE THE DATE IS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON LETTER FORMS, IT
REMAINS UNCERTAIN. -V.&S. DERIVE THE (UNKNOWN) NAME FROM βλοσυρος `VIRILE' AND
REFER TO THE KNOWN NAME Βλοσων WITH REFF.
CAVI Number: 0510
AVI Bibliography: VANDERPOOL AND STAMIRES MS. — LANG (1976), 20/D 29, PL. 8 (DR.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
