CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. From Megara Hyblaea. Pointed-Nose Painter
(Bothmer); Castellani Painter (Kluiver). Third quarter sixth. 550-530. Very
early or early periods of Castellani Painter (Kluiver){1}.
CAVI Subject: A: fight: a bearded man; two warriors in combat; a woman; a goose or swan. B:
komos (males dancing).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of the warrior at right, near kion.(?): α(λ)οχ(.)(.)ο̣.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} K. lists as a slender amphora, which amphorae he says are either very
early or early, but he does not say which this one is (the listing may be
chronological; it goes from 167 -179; this vase is 175, a bit past the middle).
CAVI Comments: The rest of the letters are unclear.
CAVI Number: 7542
AVI Bibliography: P.E. Arias, CVA Syracuse 1, Italy 17 (1941), III H, pl. 1,1. — ABV (1956),
100/67. — Para. (1971), 38. — Bothmer (1976), 435 (att. to Pointed-Nose
Painter). — AttScr (1990), no. 1033. — Kluiver (1996), 8/175 and 13 (inscrr.
mentioned but not given).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
