CAVI Lemma: FR. OF KANTHAROS. FROM ATHENS, ACROPOLIS, WEST SLOPE. UNATTRIBUTED.
HELLENISTIC. THIRD.
CAVI Subject: IVY GARLAND.
CAVI Inscriptions: BELOW THE GARLAND, HORIZONTAL GR.: πι(.)(.) κακοδαιμων{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} V.&S. READ: πιθ̣ι, LANG, πιη; PL. 31 HAS UNCERTAIN TRACES WITH A VERTICAL
AT THE END. COULD IT BE πιε̣ι̣?
CAVI Comments: FOR THE FIRST WORD, LANG PREFERS A HORTATORY SUBJUNCTIVE WITH IOTA OMITTED:
`LET THE EVIL-SPIRITED DRINK,' TO A SECOND PERSON IMPERATIVE WITH THE ADJECTIVE
IN THE VOCATIVE. I WOULD PREFER THE LATTER: `DRINK, YOU FOOL!.' -AN ATTEMPT AT
ERASING THE INSCRIPTION IS VISIBLE.
CAVI Number: 0552
AVI Bibliography: VANDERPOOL AND STAMIRES MS. — LANG (1976), 54/G 15, PL. 31 (DR.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
