CAVI Lemma: RF neck amphora. From Orvieto. Syriskos Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: a boy before a man with his stick. B: similar (reversed; the man offering
a flower).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of the boy's body: [κ]αλος ει. To left of the man's open mouth:
καλος ει, retr. B: to right of the man's face: κ̣[α]λος ει. To the boy's left,
under his armpit, partly kion., nonsense (mock) inscription, imitating the
others: κγσγ(ο)ι{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} i.e., alpha without a cross bar, twice intended? The reading is from a
photo.; CVA reads καλος ει twice on this side.
CAVI Comments: Listed as Orvieto, Opera del Duomo 1045 in CVA. The men are praising the boys
and the painter is too.
CAVI Number: 5806
AVI Bibliography: Photos. — G. Becatti, CVA Umbria 1, Italy 16 (1940), pl. 4,3-4. — ARV[2]
(1963), 261/21.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
