CAVI Lemma: PLAIN LIP CUP OF SPECIAL SHAPE. EXEKIAS (?). EXEKIAS, POTTER. THIRD QUARTER
SIXTH. 540-530. 545-540 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: NO FIGURED DECORATION.
CAVI Inscriptions: HANDLE ZONE: A: Εχσεκιας εποιεσεν PLUS A BLOT (JHS 52, 185): Ε{α}χσεκιας
εποιεσεν. B: ενεοινοιοιεν{1}. B: THREATTE (1980), 353, MENTIONS AN UNLIKELY
READING: εν ε[ι] οινο[ι] ιοιεν. (ἐν [ι] οἶνο[ι] ἴοιεν.)
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THREATTE (1980), 353, MENTIONS AN UNLIKELY READING: εν ε[ι] οινο[ι]
ιοιεν.
CAVI Comments: LARGE AND FIRM LETTERING AS ON EARLY LM CUPS. ON B, AND PERHAPS ALSO ON A,
THE SPACE IS COMPLETELY FILLED, WHENCE B IS MORE WIDELY SPACED. THE WRITING
POSSIBLE FOR EXEKIAS, BUT THE CUP IS PERHAPS EARLIER. THE FIRST ALPHA SMEARED
AND PARTLY WIPED OFF. - MOCK INSCRIPTION ON B, PLAYING ON οινος.-
CALLIPOLITIS-FEYTMANS THINKS IT IS FROM THE BEGINNING OF EXEKIAS' CAREER: BUT IS
THE HAND OF THE INSCRIPTION HIS?
CAVI Number: 0741
AVI Bibliography: HOPPIN (1924), 91 (AFTER WV 1888, PL. 7,3). — BEAZLEY (1932), 185. — ABV
(1956), 147/5 (TOP). — D. CALLIPOLITIS-FEYTMANS, CVA ATHENS 3, GREECE 3 (1986),
PL. 30,1-4 (PHS. OF INSCRIPTIONS). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 146.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)