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)
