CAVI Lemma: RF column krater. From Cumae. Manner of Göttingen Painter. First quarter
fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Theseus and the bull. B: a duel of two warriors.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: scattered letters(1): above Theseus' back: γγ(.)(ο)σ(ε).
Continued above his head and a tree: υ v. (.)σ(ε)(ε)(ε)ισ. Between Theseus'
legs: π and γ. To right of his mouth: γ. Under the bull's belly: (ι). Between
his legs: γ turned 90 degrees. Above his rear: γ{1}. B: on the right-hand
shield, kionedon, but horizontal and retr.: Λ Τ Σ{2}. In the field:
ιγ/(.)γ^σσσλ(ο)σ{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} 21 letters show in the facs. of CVA; I saw only 20. {2} the sigma is
reversed. {3} after the facs. in CVA; the first part is horizontal, the second
vertical. My notes show that the letters are more scattered and uncertain.
CAVI Comments: Ex Gallatin. According to CVA, Beazley compares Mon. Linc. 22, 518-19, figs.
191-191a (= Naples RC 131, ARV[2] 234/9) and New York 06.1021.97 (ARV[2]
234/10), both column kraters by the Göttigen Painter. Imitation letters.
CAVI Number: 5673
AVI Bibliography: J. Hoppin and A. Gallatin, CVA Hoppin & Gallatin, USA 1 (1926), pl. 9,5 and
p. 8 (facs. of inscriptions). — ARV[2] (1963), 235/7.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
