CAVI Lemma: BASE OF VASE (?) (ROUND). FROM ATHENS, OLYMPIEUM. UNATTRIBUTED. END OF SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED.
CAVI Inscriptions: DIP. ON THE BUFF CLAY, IN LARGE LETTERS: Λαμνε.
CAVI Comments: MITSOS DISCUSSES THE NAME AT LENGTH ON PP. 262-63. IT IS NOT FOUND IN ATTICA,
WHERE ONLY Λαμια OCCURS, BUT IT MAY BE A PARALLEL FORM. NOTE THAT THERE IS A
FISH CALLED η λαμια (A SHARK), FOR WHICH THERE IS A PARALLEL FORM λαμνα/η.
UNCLEAR WHETHER THE REFERENCE HERE IS TO THE FISH OR TO A PERSON; LGPN II ASUMES
THE LATTER.
CAVI Number: 0181
AVI Bibliography: MITSOS (1947), 262/5, PL. 68.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
