CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. FROM CORINTH. ELBOWS OUT. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: COCKS. BODY: ANTITHETIC LIONS WITH A PLANT BETWEEN.
CAVI Inscriptions: BODY: DIRECTLY BELOW THE TOP MARGIN AND STARTING NEAR THE HEADS OF THE LIONS:
θιπαβντα(γ), RETR.{1}. παντα. IN DILUTE BROWN.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO HASPELS; CVA OMITS THE FIRST LETTER AND SO DOES MY NOTE FROM AUTOPSY;
I READ: ιπαβνταν, RETR., WITH THE REMARK THAT THE LAST LETTER COULD BE AN
`ARROW' GAMMA PLACED VERY CLOSE TO THE LEFT MARGIN. I WONDER IF THE LETTERING IS
NOT ALSO CORINTHIAN, AS THAT ON LOUVRE MNC 332; IF THE LATTER IS FALSE, SO
SHOULD BE THAT ON MNC 333. THE FIRST INSCRIPTION IS AT ANY RATE NONSENSE.
HASPELS' READINGS ARE ON P. 22/1: θ̣ιπαβντα(γ), RETR. [NOTE THE DOT UNDER THE
THETA] AND παντα. THE PH. SHOWS ιπαβντα CLEARLY, BUT THE THETA, IF IT IS THAT,
SEEMS A MERE SHADOW. THE LAST LETTER, UNCLEAR IN THE PH. BECAUSE OF CURVATURE,
IS PRINTED AS A REGULAR ATTIC GAMMA. THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE IN THE UPPER LEFT AND
RIGHT-HAND CORNERS OF THE PICTURE, IN EACH CASE STARTING FROM THE LIONS' FACES
(THESE ARE ANTITHETCAL, BUT TURN THEIR HEADS AWAY FROM EACH OTHER). HASPELS HAS
THE BETA WITH POINTED LOOPS, BUT MY NOTE GIVES BOTH LOOPS AS ROUNDED.
CAVI Comments: LISTED IN ABV AS NO. CA 178, BUT SEE PARA. SAID IN CVA (ON MNC 332) TO BE
FROM THE SAME CORINTHIAN TOMB AS THE LATTER.
CAVI Number: 6709
AVI Bibliography: HASPELS (1936), 22/2, PL. 7,3 (SHOWS POSITION OF INSCRIPTIONS). — N.
PLAOUTINE, CVA LOUVRE 9, FRANCE 14 (1938), III H E, UNDER MNC 332, PL. 93,1-5,
NOT ILL. — ABV (1956), 249/16. — PARA. (1971), 112. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 902.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
