CAVI Lemma: FR. OF LARGE UNGLAZED STORAGE AMPHORA. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. SECOND
QUARTER FIFTH (LANG). 490-450 (CONTEXT). CLOSE TO 450.
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE WALL, WRITTEN ON THE SHERD, GR.: Μενεδεμος Χαριας
Ξανθες Αμφιβολος Προταρχος Πενταριστε Καλ[λ]ιστρατε
CAVI Comments: FOUND WITH 15,208, Q.V. - MIXED ALPHABET: IONIC LETTERS ARE XI AND LAMBDA.
DESPITE THAT, THE LETTER FORMS ARE MORE OLD-FASHIONED THAN P 15,208 AND NOT BY
THE SAME HAND. BOTH GRAFFITI OUGHT TO BE EROTIC. CARTWHEEL THETA INTENDED.-
V.&S. STATE THAT XANTHES IS UNKNOWN IN ATTICA [BUT SEE NOW LGPN II] EXCEPT FOR
IG I/2. 377,3, WHERE THE PERSON IS THOUGHT TO BE A DELIAN; THE NAME IS ALSO
FOUND ON COINS OF KLAZOMENAI; SEE COLLITZ, SGDI 5, 610,8. AMPHIBOULOS APPEARS IN
ERETRIA IN THE 4TH C.; IG XII,9, 249,B,97. IT IS UNCERTAIN WETHER WE HAVE HERE
THIS NAME [SO LGPN II] OR THE UNATTESTED AMPHIBOLOS. - LANG AND V.&S. GIVE A
PARALLEL FOR PENTARISTE: AJA 51 (1947) 368 (GRAVE STONE PUBLISHED BY D.M.
ROBINSON). BUT SEE NOW LGPN II UNDER Παντ- AND Πενταριστη.
CAVI Number: 0497
AVI Bibliography: VANDERPOOL AND STAMIRES MS. — LANG (1976), D 39, PL. 9 (DR.). — ATTSCR
(1990), NO. 730.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
