CAVI Lemma: small BF neck amphora. Diosphos Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: two Amazons arming, with a lion. B: a warrior restraining his horse; a
dog.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: imitation letters: A: between the Amazons' heads: 5 letters. B:
above the horse's rump: υχυ(γ)ιγχ. Under the horse's belly and around the dog's
head: 7 letters. To right of the warrior's back: 5 letters.
CAVI Comments: = 1885.710. The letters are close to imitation letters. The phs. in CVA are
too small to see the letter forms, but the imitation inscriptions seem to follow
the Diosphos Painter's regular practice of varying the shapes of the letters to
give the illusion of real inscriptions. B has more inscriptions than A; hence it
is probably the more important side.
CAVI Number: 5871
AVI Bibliography: Gardner (1897), 12/217. — V.Pol. (1928), 6 n. 4. — Haspels (1936), 238/129. —
ABV (1956), 703/129. — Para. (1971), 248. — J. Boardman, CVA Oxford 3, Great
Britain 14 (1975), pl. 25,1-2. — Add.[2] (1989), 127.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
