CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. FROM ATHENS, CERAMICUS. UNATTRIBUTED; CLASS OF ATHENS 581 II.
FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 500-490 (ANDREAE AFTER RAUBITSCHEK).
CAVI Subject: HERACLES AND A SLEEPING GIANT (ALKYONEUS). BELOW THE LATTER, HYPNOS,
CROUCHING. AT LEFT, A PALM TREE.
CAVI Inscriptions: STARTING ABOVE HERACLES' OUTSTRETCHED ARM, ON EITHER SIDE OF HYPNOS, IN LARGE
LETTERS: αλ^σει{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CC GIVES καλος ει[ς]. PARA. READS: ΚΑΛ(ο) ΣΕΙ (IN ATTIC LETTERS).
CAVI Comments: = ATHENS, NM 1258. - BEAUTIFUL LETTERS. ANDREAE TAKES THE INSCRIPTION FOR THE
DATIVE OF THE POETIC WORD αλσος, AND THINKS IT PERHAPS A REFERENCE TO A LITERARY
WORK, THE PALM TREE SYMBOLIZING THE ALSOS. EXCEPT FOR THE INSCRIPTION VERY
COARSE WORK. - DANALI-GKIOLE DERIVES THE INSCRIPTION αλσει FROM THE THEATER (CF.
αστει), CITING THIS VASE AND A LOST BF LEKYTHOS BY THE SAPPHO PAINTER, WHICH SHE
(WRONGLY) SAYS HAS τισις AND αλσει (HASPELS (1936), 227/40). FOR αλσει SHE
CITES, SNELL, TRGF II (1981) 279B. I LIST THE OTHER LEKYTHOS UNDER `LOST' (NO.
4819).
CAVI Number: 0711
AVI Bibliography: BENNDORF (1868–83), PL. 42,2. — A. BAUMEISTER IN BAUMEISTER (1885–8), I, S.V.
ALKYONEUS, 49, FIG. 56. — COLLIGNON–COUVE (1902–4), NO. 912. — ANDREAE (1962),
194/16, FIGS. 43-44. — PARA. (1971), 237. — DANALI-GKIOLE (1987), 159-66, FIGS.
1-7,
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
