CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF pyxis. From Athens. Unattributed. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Sanctuary: uncertain mound (heroon? beehive?); fountain; column; seated man
with stick; altar; at right, lower part of a goddess enthroned, making libation
over the altar.
CAVI Inscriptions: In front of the seated man: υι(?){1}. Horizontal Gr. along the bottom of the
scene: [--- ελε]υθεριας κ̣αλο v. : σοφροσσυνεν ενι κλα[δοις σ]μιλα[κος ---]. To
right of the man's head, through the scene: [---]ν εχει[ς] στεφανον{2}.
Graef–Langlotz's reading follows the order of the lines, but makes little sense:
καλο]νεχειστεφανον ...ελε]υθεριας [κ]αλο : σοφροσσυνενενικλα μ(ι)λ(α) Peek
thinks the inscription began at the punctuation, continued around the whole vase
and went above when the omicron of καλον met the first sigma of σοφροσσυνεν [at
which moment I think the interpoint was placed]. Hence: σοφροσσυνεν ενι κλα[δοις
σ]μιλα̣[κος hειμενος] [Στρομβιχε, ελε]υθεριας κ̣αλο:ν εχει[ς] στεφανον{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} not in the dr. {2} this line must be between the heads of the man and the
goddess. {3} Στρομβιχε, Peek exempli gratia.
CAVI Comments: Frs. a - c. I agree with Peek's reconstruction; for the interpoint marking a
shift of line see AttScr (1990), 168.
CAVI Number: 1398
AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), ii, no. 563, pl. 42 (dr.); *Peek, ibid., 130. —
Peek (1933), 118ff.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
