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)