CAVI Lemma: FR. OF LARGE OPEN BG BOWL. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. LATE FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE EXT., JUST BELOW THE RIM, IN A TAENIA WITH TASSELS(1), GR.: [ο δεινα
τοι Ηφαισ]τοι ^ ανεθηκεν.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} I THINK THE TAENIA IS INCISED TOO. ONLY THE TASSEL AT THE RIGHT IS
PRESERVED, BUT THERE IS A VERTICAL DIVIDER AFTER Ηφαισ]τοι. {2} NOT ENTERED IN
CAVI, AS NO NUMBER IS GIVEN HERE AND IT IS NOT A VASE.
CAVI Comments: FOR THE VASE SHAPE, CF. AGORA P 10,577, SPARKES–TALCOTT (1970), 241/70, PL.
4, DATED 425-400. FOR INSCRIPTIONS IN A TAENIA SEE THE JACOBSTHAL FESTSCHRIFT
AND DOW (1930), 63-72, PLS. 1-2. THE RESTORATION WAS SUGGESTED BY V.&S. (AS "NOT
THE ONLY POSSIBLE ONE"), AFTER A DEDICATION TO HEPHAESTUS ON A ROOF TILE(2)
FOUND ABOUT 20M AWAY (HESP. 8 (1939) 214-15); IT IS FOLLOWED BY LANG. A DEEPLY
INCISED ORNAMENTAL INSCRIPTION IN CLEAR AND EVEN LETTERS. MIXED ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 0443
AVI Bibliography: VANDERPOOL AND STAMIRES MS. — LANG (1976), 54/G 7, PL. 30 (DR.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
