CAVI Lemma: FR. OF RF OINOCHOE (CHOUS). UNATTRIBUTED{1}. MID-FIFTH (CVA).
CAVI Subject: CARICATURE: OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX (O. WITH A DOG'S REAR END; SPHINX WITH A
DOGS'S FACE ON AN IONIC COLUMN).
CAVI Inscriptions: ABOVE: Κασσμ[ι]α FOR Καδμεια{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} VAN HOORN SAYS THE BOEOTIAN MYTH IS TREATED IN THE BOEOTIAN CARICATURE
STYLE; GREIFENHAGEN IN CVA ALSO THINKS THE PAINTER EXHIBITS NON-ATTIC FEATURES,
BUT THE VASE IS LISTED AS ATTIC. {2} OR Κασσμ[ει]α: BOTH FORMS ARE ADMITTED AS
POSSIBLE BY FURTW.
CAVI Comments: VAN HOORN GIVES THE NUMBER: BERLIN 3186. EX NAPLES, BOURGUIGNON COLLECTION. -
KRETSCHMER INTERPRETS KADMEIA AS AN INDICATION OF PLACE; IT COULD ALSO REFER TO
THE SPHINX. THE KAPPA IS SMEARED. COMPARE BRINDISI, MUSEO PROVINCIALE, RF
AMPHORA (KRETSCHMER (1894), 148 AND 175): Κασσμος. CF. ALSO THREATTE (1980),
567-68.
CAVI Number: 2442
AVI Bibliography: FURTWäNGLER (1891), 119/17 (DR.). — KRETSCHMER (1894), 148. — C. ROBERT
(1915), II, 23, FIG. 12. — HOORN (1951), NO. 338, FIG. 29. — A. GREIFENHAGEN,
CVA BERLIN 3, GERMANY 22 (1962), PL. 148.4.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
