CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. FROM GELA. GELA PAINTER. LATE SIXTH - FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: AMAZONS ARMING: THE PH. IN HASPELS SHOWS: A SHIELD AT LEFT; AMAZON TO RIGHT;
SHIELD (PROBABLY HELD BY HER}; BELOW IT, A SWORD AND TWO UPRIGHT SPEARS; AT
RIGHT, AMAZON TO LEFT HOLDING A SHIELD IN PROFILE, WITH A SATYR HEAD AS DEVICE
STICKING OUT.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE. PART IMITATION. SMALL LETTERS STREWN IN FIELD. THOSE SHOWN IN
HASPELS' PHOTO DO NOT LOOK LIKE THE USUAL NU'S; THEY ARE SMALL AND RESEMBLE
LAMBDA 2, SIGMA 1 CF. THE CHART IN ATTSCR), AND PERHAPS ONE LOOKS LIKE A NU;
OTHERS ARE IMITATION LETTERS. BUT FROM THE BEAZLEY PH. I HAD CONCLUDED THE
LETTERS WERE THE USUAL NU TYPE, BUT TINIER. [[7539:]] CAVI 7540 HAD SYRACUSE
2358 IN ERROR, WHICH IS NOT INSCRIBED.
CAVI Number: 7540
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — BENNDORF (1868–83), PL. 52,3. — HASPELS (1936), 81, 104, 208/61, PL.
25,2 (FRONT; SHOWS LETTERS).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
