CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Manner of Acheloos Painter. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Cerberus. B: komos of three bearded men.
CAVI Inscriptions: B: Σοστρατο καλο ειμι{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} according to ABV the last letter is "no more than a dot."
CAVI Comments: My suggestion (see AttScr): "I belong to handsome Sostratos." A bespoken gift
vase, unless the statement is a lover's. ABV: Σοστρατο[ς] καλο[ς] ειμι. Klein:
Σοστρατο[ς] κ[αλος] ειμι. Owner's inscription (Pottier, Mayer). "Ausruf eines
schwärmenden Zechers" (Hartwig). Ascribed to a figure (Langlotz). - Beazley in
ABV says that it is difficult to decide between the Acheloos Painter and his
manner.
CAVI Number: 2832
AVI Bibliography: Pottier (1890–1), pl. 18,1. — Hartwig (1893), 257, n., no. 3. — Klein (1898),
37/2. — Langlotz (1920), 46, n. 6. — RE III A/1 (1927), s.v. Sostratos 11
(Leonard). — ABV (1956), 385/2. — AttScr (1990), no. 433.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
