CAVI Collection: Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum 1881.44.22.
CAVI Lemma: BF oinochoe. Unattributed. Last quarter sixth. Ca. 520 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: Ajax and Achilles playing a board game, with Athena in the center.
CAVI Inscriptions: Mostly nonsense or mock inscriptions: above and around the helmet of the left
hero: νεο(τ)δκυο. To right of his head and shield: καλε{1}. Above and around the
helmet and back of the right hero: δενοιεκοσ{2}. To left of his face: νιδσ{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so the photo and autopsy; the previous word inaccurate in CVA, text. Or
καλε? {2} so CVA, text; I did not read it; the photo shows: ...κοσ^νιδσ; i.e.,
the last two inscriptions go together.
CAVI Comments: Based on a hasty note and CVA. The inscriptions seem to me to represent
illiterate attempts to write kalos-inscriptions rather than nonsense. Is the
left one for Neokleides (despite the kale)? CVA calls the left hero Achilles,
the other Ajax.
CAVI Number: 3405
AVI Bibliography: E. Moignard, CVA Edinburgh 1, Great Britain 16 (1989), pl. 11,4-6.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
