CAVI Collection: VIENNA, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 589.
CAVI Lemma: RF SKYPHOS (GLAUX). UNATTRIBUTED. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. NOT EARLIER THAN 480
(EICHLER).
CAVI Subject: A, B, ECH: AN OWL BETWEEN TWO OLIVE BRANCHES.
CAVI Inscriptions: UNDER THE FOOT: ΣΟ AND ΔΓΙΙΙ{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} JOHNSTON SAYS THAT SO IS A DIP. AND IS FOLLOWED BY ACROPHONIC NUMERALS
ADDING UP TO 18 [I.E. THE FOURTH LETTER IS A PI NOT IONIC GAMMA]; HE REJECTS
EICHLER'S INTERPRETATION OF SO = σ[κυφ]ο[ι] AND OF THE NUMBERS AS A PRICE. HE
LISTS PARALLELS FOR NUMERALS ON GLAUKES IN N. 7; THEY MAY ALWAYS ADD UP TO
MULTIPLES OF 6.
CAVI Comments: EICHLER READS: 10 SKYPHOI FOR 1 DR. 3 OBOLS, BUT JOHNSTON (SEE BELOW) RIGHTLY
OBJECTS. THE READING SHOULD BE: ΣΟ ΔΠΙΙΙ = 18. A BATCH NOTATION.
CAVI Number: 7906
AVI Bibliography: F. EICHLER, CVA VIENNA 1, AUSTRIA 1 (1951), PL. 44,1; P. 36, FACS. OF GR. —
JOHNSTON (1979), 83/21A 104 AND 190 WITH N. 7.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
