CAVI Collection: Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum 888.
CAVI Lemma: RF eye cup. From Vulci. Unattributed. Third or fourth quarter sixth. 520-510
(Hemelrijk).
CAVI Subject: Int.: youth astride a wineskin (riding on it). Between palmettes and eyes: A:
warrior lying in wait. B: similar.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under one handle, Gr. in very tiny letters: hieron epoiesen, Considered
modern by H. H. obviously thinks the handle belongs.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} surely Gr. If genuine, this handle must be from another vase.
CAVI Comments: The cup badly damaged. Hemelrijk discusses the askoliasmos and states that
wineskins were often blown up with air and are handled as being very light. He
cites Pollux 9.121.
CAVI Number: 0133
AVI Bibliography: C.W. Lunsingh Scheurleer, CVA The Hague 1, Netherlands 1 (1927), III I b, pl.
1,4-6. — Blösch (1940), 38/72a. — ARV[2] (1963), 49/178. — J.M. Hemelrijk, CVA
Amsterdam 1, Netherlands 6 (1988), pl. 3,2-3 and pl. 4 (none show inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)