CAVI Lemma: Fr. of coarse wine amphora. From Athens. Unattributed. Last quarter fifth
(context; Lang).
CAVI Subject: Undecorated.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the shoulder, in BG: οσχος Α{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} = οξος, `cheap wine'. For οξος as a word for wine, see now N. Kruit, ZPE
90 (1992) (265ff.).
CAVI Comments: Lang: σχ = ξ also on some Kallixenos ostraca (Hesp. 19 (1950) 387/22). "Alpha
may perhaps be taken as as a number indicating capacity (one amphora or
metretes) or quality." Corbett compares tentatively Agora P 11,368, q.v.
CAVI Number: 0437
AVI Bibliography: Corbett (1949), 336/102, pls. 97-98. — Lang (1976), Hd 1, 74/pl. 41 (dr.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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