CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF BG POT. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. DATE UNCLEAR.
CAVI Subject: UNDECORATED.
CAVI Inscriptions: GRR.: [---]μ̣αθ̣[---]μ̣υ̣[---] (2) Αγαθ[ον] (1) VAC. και τον κοινε φ̣[ιλ]ον
:* μ' εφερε. VACAT. (3) καλος. (1)
CAVI Comments: THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE INTERTWINED: {1} IS IN LARGER LETTERS THAN {2} AND {3}
AND WAS PRESUMABLY WRITTEN FIRST. THE FIRST PART OF {2} AND ALL OF {3} ARE IN
SMALLER LETTERS OF ABOUT THE SAME SIZE; DESPITE THE VACAT AT THE BEGINNING OF
{3} ONE COULD CONSIDER {2} AND {3} ONE INSCRIPTION. THE SECOND PART OF {2} IS IN
LARGE AND CURIOUSLY CURVED LETTERS, OF WHICH I CAN MAKE NOTHING; THEY MAY NOT
BELONG WITH ANY OF THE OTHER LETTERS. PEEK, WHO RESTORED [φιλ]ον, THINKS THE
VASE MAY BE SPEAKING: "[REMEMBER SO-AND-SO] AND THE COMMON FRIENDS; HE BROUGHT
ME." HILLER VON GAERTRINGEN THOUGHT εφερε HAD EROTIC SIGNIFICANCE, WHICH IS NOT
ACCEPTED BY PEEK. {2} IS IGNORED BY ALL. TALCOTT COMPARES μ' εφερε WITH AGORA P
5160, WHICH HAS μεθερε [με φερε, LANG (1976), C 19] TOGETHER WITH SEVERAL GR.
KALOS-INSCRIPTIONS; SHE ALSO CITES KRETSCHMER (1894), 200, WHO LISTS A RF
AMPHORA IN THE CANINO COLLECTION [NOT IN BEAZLEY], WITH, ABOVE, DIONYSUS' HEAD
α[νδ?]ροςμεθερ, WITHOUT EXPLAINING IT. SHE SEEMS TO ACCEPT PEEK'S EXPLANATION.
BUT THE PUNCTUATION SHOULD NOT HAVE THE FUNCTION OF A SEMICOLON OR PERIOD. THE
GENERAL CONTEXT HERE IS CERTAINLY EROTIC.
CAVI Number: 1688
AVI Bibliography: KRETSCHMER (1894), 200, PARA. 182. — GRAEF–LANGLOTZ (1925–33), II, NO. 1493,
PL. 93 (PH.), P. 126 (DR.); *PEEK, IBID., 131. — TALCOTT (1936), 350/UNDER NO.
3.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
