CAVI Lemma: FR. FROM RIM OF BG SKYPHOS. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. DATE UNCLEAR.
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED.
CAVI Inscriptions: GR., IN TWO LINES: [--- με]δεοσει [α]πα[ρχεν]. [--- εποιεσ]ε̣ και
[ανεθεκε](?){1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} KLAFFENBACH THOUGHT OF με]δεṓσε̅ι, PEEK SUGGESTED THE ROUGH RESTORATIONS;
I HAVE MADE SOME CHANGES.
CAVI Comments: A POTTER'S DEDICATION? - PEEK RESTORES LINE 1 AS A DEDICATORY HEXAMETER WHICH
INCLUDES THE PHRASE: πόλεος με]δεṓσει, BUT THE PHRASE SHOULD BE [Ἀθε̅νᾶ] Ἀθε̅νν
μεδεṓσε̅ι, WHICH DOES NOT SCAN. HIS RESTORATION OF LINE 2 IS ALSO UNLIKELY,
SINCE IT DOES NOT SCAN. - FOR μεδεṓσε̅ι CF. THE SAMIAN HOROI WITH Ἀθηνᾶ Ἀθηνῶν
μεδέο̅σα (REFF. IN ATTSCR (1990), 137) AND IG I/2. 14, LINES 4-5.
CAVI Number: 1668
AVI Bibliography: GRAEF–LANGLOTZ (1925–33), II, NO. 1473 (NOT ILL.); *PEEK, IBID., 131.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)