CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Eretria. Achilles Painter. Third quarter fifth. 460/55-450
(Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Mistress and Maid: small woman with chest to right; tall woman with
plemochoie to left; at left, below the top, the ph. shows an oinochoe hung up.
CAVI Inscriptions: Starting above the head of the small woman, between it and the head of the
tall woman, close to the top, horizontal stoich. left-aligned three-liner:
Διφιλος | καλος | Μελανοπ|ο. ....... ..... . ......{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the final omicron is aligned horizontally with line 2 and vertically with
lines 1 and 3.
CAVI Comments: The last letter of the patronymic added at the end of the second line
(Beazley; see also ARV[2] 1677). The lettering is somewhat different from other
Diphilos vases such as Athens 1923. Mixed alphabet. Mixed alphabet. Ionic
lambda. Three-stroke sigma.
CAVI Number: 0827
AVI Bibliography: Bosanquet (1896), 165/4, pl. 5, 1. — Klein (1898), 159/1. — Collignon–Couve
(1902–4), no. 1630. — Fairbanks (1907), Group B, Class 4, Series 3, no. 9. —
ARV[2] (1963), 995/120, 1677. — Oakley (1997), 136/169, pl. 92C (shows
inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
