9016515, ATHENIAN, -, unknown
- Vase Number: 9016515
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: RED-FIGURE
- Shape Name: CUP C FRAGMENT
- Date: -500 to -450
- Current Collection: -, unknown
- Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 78 (1974) PL.88.1-2
- AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=8126
- AVI Record Number: 7839
- CAVI Collection: Unlocated.(1).
- CAVI Lemma: foot of cup of type C. Unattributed. Beginning fifth. Ca. 480{2}.
- CAVI Subject: No figured decoration preserved.
- CAVI Inscriptions: Gr.: Vickers and Jeffery: μυσοστο : Ἀπόλλονι : ἀντὶ μιᾶς δύο :. Matthaiou:
Μῦς Ὄ̅στο̅ Ἀπόλλονι ἀντὶ μιᾶς δύο. Vickers and Jeffery: the inscription is not
Attic; it could be Aeginetan, but a Sicilian origin is not excluded (Jeffery).
Matthaiou 78 thinks the inscription Attic. Perhaps mixed alphabet? Ionic lambda
and sigma.
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} USA, Private. {2} compared by Vickers and Jeffery with Sparkes–Talcott
(1970), 265/412, which is there dated ca. 480. Jeffery, by letter, dates the
inscription ca. 470 plus or minus, and the vase earlier.
- CAVI Comments: The foot has a rattle: an X-ray shows 10 pieces and the opening through which
they had been inserted. Jeffery interprets the inscription in two possible ways:
{1} Μυσὸς το̃[ι] ... `The Mysian' as a proper name. Two errors are assumed:
omission of iota and misplacement of punctuation. {2} μυσσοτά. Cf. Hsch.
μυσσωτά· γελοῖα. Misspelled as μυσοστο. `A pair of jokes for Apollo: two
rattling cups(?) for Apollo'. Matthaiou: Ὤστης is an unknown name. (This reading
is meant to correct Jeffery.) LGPN ii reads Μυσός after Jeffery. The last word
is written larger to fill out the circle.
- CAVI Number: 7839
- AVI Bibliography: Vickers–Jeffery (1974), 430-31, pl. 88,1-2 (incl. ph. of inscription). —
Matthaiou (1988), 77-78. — SEG 38 (1988), no. 40.
- 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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