CAVI Lemma: FR. FROM RIM AND SHOULDER OF RED-GLAZE DECORATED POT{1}. FROM ATHENS.
UNATTRIBUTED. LATE FIFTH (LANG).
CAVI Subject: THE ONLY DECORATION IS A BAND ON RIM AND TOP OF SHOULDER.
CAVI Inscriptions: ALONG THE EDGE OF GLAZE ON THE SHOULDER, GR.: [--υ]παιθριος ΟΒΟΛΟ[--].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} GLAZE IN BAND ON RIM AND TOP OF SHOULDER; INSIDE UNGLAZED. WIDE MOUTH.
CAVI Comments: UNINTELLIGIBLE. LISTED BY LANG AS AN UNCLASSIFIED NOTATION. SHE PRINTS:
υ]παιθριος οβολο[ς, WITH THE COMMENT: "BUT WHY A "SPIT IN THE OPEN AIR"? A
COOK-OUT? OR IS IT υπαιθριος ο βολος?" βολος IS A THROW OR A CATCH; THIS MAY BE
RIGHT AND THE LINE POETIC? - THE FIRST OMICRON SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN ADDED LATER;
THE THIRD HAS A SHORT VERTICAL LINE WITHIN. RATHER GOOD WRITING.
CAVI Number: 0457
AVI Bibliography: LANG (1976), 90/L 7, PL. 56 (DR.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
