Decoration: A,B: UNDECORATED I: YOUTH RUNNING WITH POINTED AMPHORA, INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Compiegne, Musée Vivenel: 1106
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 45 (1941), 594, FIG.1A, B (I, INCLUDING DRAWING OF I) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: COMPIEGNE, MUSEE VIVENEL, 9, PL.(111) 13.9-10 View Whole CVA Plates Galoin, A., Vases Grecs, Collections des musees de Compiegne et de Laon (Paris, 2001): FRONT COVER, 72, FIG.10 (COLOUR OF I) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (I, Drawing)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF cup. From Vulci{1}. Unattributed{2}. Last quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: running youth carrying a pointed amphora.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: various readings have been proposed: καλεhοπος, retr. and (.)εσσθε.
Canino cat{3}. παις πιεσθε. Kunstblatt. καλει οπως πιεσθε. `vocat ut bibatis.'
Amati. οπως πιεσθε. Gerhard. οπως πιης, Σθενω καλη. Panofka{4}. καλη οπως
πιεσσθε. CIG. ι...εσσθε and καλε hοπ... in caps. CVA, France 3. ------ιεσσθε and
καλεWοπο, retr., with repainting after that. Old reading by Beazley.
------Beazley reads from the Canino cat. and Gerhard's apparatus: to right of
the youth's forehead: (κ)αλε(μ)οπος, retr.{5}. To right of his middle: πιεσσθε.
Beazley thus reads: κάλει μ’ὅπο̅ς πίεσσθε, an Iambic dimeter catalectic{6}.
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CAVI Footnotes: {1} Beazley (1941): not from Nola: no. 575 of Canino cat. of 1829; then
intact, but broken before it reached the Compiègne museum; an alien outer part
was added, see Beazley JHS 45 (1925) 286; medaillon and foot are preserved. {2}
CVA wrongly says that Beazley in VA (1918), 6 put the vase close to Psiax. {3}
(.) = pointed gamma + iota, close together. {4} for bibliography on these
readings see CVA, France 16. {5} The first letter is no doubt a smeared kappa;
the fifth = heta with a curved horizontal, but read by Beazley as an upside down
mu (the lambda he says should also be upside down, since the vase is too early
for Ionic lambda [but see above!]). {6} according to Beazley, either retr., with
lambda and sigma upside down, or more probably written in three spells: κα,
retr. + λεμ + οπος, retr.
CAVI Comments: Beazley cites 3 examples for the omission of heta. He considers πιεσσθε
future [indicative] rather than present subjunctive (see AJA). - [I had thought
of reading κάλει hοπος πιεσσθε, but that still leaves an Ionic lambda, which is
perhaps possible (pace Beazley), as Ionic vase inscriptions appear in the later
sixth century, e.g. AttScr (1990), no. 327. Is Amati's καλεῖ to be rejected?]
CAVI Number: 3223
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 8085. — M. Flot, CVA Compiègne, France 3 (1924), III I
b, pl. 13,9-10. — Beazley (1941), 593/1, figs. 1,a-b (a: from CVA; b: from
Gerhard's app.). — N. Plaoutine and J. Roger, CVA Musée Rodin, France 16 (1945),
p. 41, ad pl. 28,1 (old bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
