Decoration: A,B: WARRIORS FIGHTING BETWEEN SPHINXES, BOEOTIAN SHIELD
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Publication Record: Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 16 (30.6.1956), PL.20, NO.92 (A, PART OF B) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 51 (14-15.3.1975), PL.22, NO.124 (A, PART OF B)
CAVI Lemma: BF BAND CUP. UNATTRIBUTED. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 540 (CAHN).
CAVI Subject: HANDLE ZONE: A: BETWEEN SPHINXES IN LIEU OF HANDLE PALMETTES: DUEL OF NAKED
WARRIORS (ONE WITH A BOEOTIAN SHIELD). B: SIMILAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO LEFT OF THE DUELISTS: NONSENSE INSCRIPTION OF 11 LETTERS. TO THEIR
RIGHT, SIMILAR: χαι PLUS SIX NONSENSE LETTERS, PERHAPS: χαιραιρε... . B:
SIMILAR.
CAVI Comments: CAHN SAYS THE INSCRIPTIONS BEGIN WITH χαι BUT END IN NONSENSE, BUT THE LEFT
INSCRIPTION ON ONE SIDE (B?) DOES NOT SEEM TO START THIS WAY; THE RIGHT
INSCRIPTION DOES. THE PICTURE OF THE OTHER SIDE (A?) IS TOO SMALL TO TELL.
-CLEARLY AN ILLITERATE ATTEMPT TO WRITE THE DRINKING INSCRIPTION.
CAVI Number: 2110
AVI Bibliography: M&M-AUCTION (1956), [NO.?] 92. — M&M-AUCTION (1975), PL. 22/124.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
