CAVI Lemma: MINIATURE AMPHORISKOS IMITATING AN SOS AMPHORA. FROM PHARSALOS? UNATTRIBUTED.
FIRST QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: NO FIGURED DECORATION. THREE RESERVED LINES AROUND THE WIDEST PART OF THE
BODY.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE SHOULDER, IN LARGE LETTERS, MAKING MORE THAN A HALF-CIRCLE, FACING
OUT, GR.: Φιλέταιρος :* μἔδο̅κεν :* Nικύλ[λ]ο̅ι, RETR.
CAVI Comments: A PERFUME VASE. NECK AND HANDLES ARE MISSING. I BELIEVE THE INSCRIPTION IS
ATTIC; PHILETAIROS IS A GOOD ATHENIAN NAME (SEE LGPN II). A SIMILAR AMPHORISKOS
WITH A GIFT INSCRIPTION IS IN THE KANELLOPOULOS MUSEUM IN ATHENS, Q.V.
CAVI Number: 7983
AVI Bibliography: FACS.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
