CAVI Lemma: BF skyphos{1}. From Corinth. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: two boxers, the left one pursuing the right one. B: horseman and youth.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: in large letters, in dilute brown: to left of left boxer: ϝΙΟΚΕ{2}.
Between the boxers: Πυκτα{3}. To right of right boxer: ΦΒVϹΕ{4}. B: signs in
white on the horse resemble letters: on the thigh: Τ. Under the rider: N. On the
shoulder: λ.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the shape is that of band skyphoi, but the top band is lacking. {2} CVA
says, for διωκει. {3} CVA: dual, cf. L. Robert (1929), ii, 24ff. {4} CVA:
φευγει; compares παῦσαι on Cab. Méd. 523, now invisible under repaintings, see
Hoppin (1919), i, 427/8, but I do not have the word in the CAVI entry.
CAVI Comments: Corinthian alphabet. CVA thinks the decoration and the pictures genuine,
speculating on a traveling Corinthian artist working in Athens. Payne, in NC,
considered both the figures and the inscriptions modern. Beazley, in Para.,
states that the inscriptions are modern; presumably he considered the figures
genuine. - CVA also compares Louvre MNC 333, said to come from the same
Corinthian tomb; it also has peculiar inscriptions in diluted brown.
CAVI Number: 6707
AVI Bibliography: Kretschmer (1888), 166-67. — Kretschmer (1894), 24/31. — F. Blass, SGDI iii/1
(1899), 74/3153. — Payne (1931), 169. — N. Plaoutine, CVA Louvre 9, France 14
(1938), III H e, pl. 93,1-5. — Para. (1971), 90/4. — [[NAGVI (2001), 114f./COR
131]].
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
