CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. ANCONA PAINTER. EARLY CLASSIC. 470-460 (BROMMER).
CAVI Subject: INT: YOUTH READING FROM A STELE (META?). EXT.: PLAIN.
CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: NONSENSE: TO YOUTH'S LEFT CURVING UPWARD: γιγιυ. ON THE STELE:
IMITATION INSCRIPTION (SEVEN ROWS OF THREE LETTERS EACH, IN A KIND OF STOICH.):
(.)οι υτυ (.)σ(ν){1}. (.)(.)(ν){1}. στυ γ(ο)α{2}. τιρ{3}.
CAVI Comments: DONE FROM THE PHOTO IN ATTSCR, SO FAR AS VISIBLE. FROM SAME TOMB AS
ADOLPHSECK 135? (BROMMER). SVENBRO RIGHTLY ILLUSTRATES THIS VASE AS AN EXAMPLE
OF AN EROTIC READER. - A PARALLEL: FERRARA, MUSEO NAZIONALE DI SPINA T 381. RF
VOLUTE KRATER, ALTAMURA PAINTER, ARV[2] 589/3, 1660, PARA. (1971), 393, ADD. 129
(BIBL.), ATTSCR (1990), NO. 672. - CVA GIVES PARALLELS FOR A YOUTH AT A STELE:
SEE CHAMOUX, WHO EXPLAINS ALL AS PALAESTRA SCENES, BUT BROMMER THINKS PERHAPS
NOT ALWAYS TRUE. B. ADDS: ADOLPHSECK 62, Q.V.; MAINZ 114.