CAVI Collection: EDINBURGH, ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM 1877.29.
CAVI Lemma: RF HYDRIA. POLYGNOTOS. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 440 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: EOS AND TITHONOS. HANDLE ZONE: LAUREL WREATH. BODY: PLAIN.
CAVI Inscriptions: UNDER FOOT, GRR.: Χ(α)ριαι{1}. α(ρ)υστηρ OR αρυστηρ[ες]{2}. ΛΙ{3}. A GR. LINE
CROSSES THE FOOT.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} ALPHA LACKS THE CROSS-STROKE. {2} JOHNSTON (1979), READS THE FORMER. THE
RHO RESEMBLES AN IONIC GAMMA. {3} = 31? BUT JOHNSTON (1979), READS (OR IMPLIES)
υδρι[]. I THOUGHT: 31 LADLES FOR CHARIAS = CHAIRIAS.
CAVI Comments: THE READINGS MAINLY FROM CVA. SEE TORONTO 350. JOHNSTON'S READINGS DIFFER IN
PART, BOTH IN G&R AND IN JOHNSTON (1979). THE GR. IS HARD TO READ. THE ALPHABET
IS NOT ATTIC. FOR LETTER FORMS SEE THE TEXT IN AJΑ: υδριαι (IMPLIED BY JOHNSTON
BUT NOT IN CVA) AND αρυστηρ SEEM TO HAVE DIFFERENT LETTER FORMS.
CAVI Number: 3403
AVI Bibliography: V.POL. (1928), 53. — BEAZLEY (1941), 597/10. — ARV[2] (1963), 1032/59. —
JOHNSTON (1974), 151/12 (INCOMPLETE READING). — JOHNSTON (1979), 91/3B 2A;
112/18C 14A; 154/4F 5; 165/21F 4. — E. MOIGNARD, CVA EDINBURGH 1, GREAT BRITAIN
16 (1989), PL. 20,1-5; FACS. P. 22. — MATHESON (1995), 360/P64, PL. 60A-B.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
