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)
