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)
