CAVI Lemma: ARYBALLOS (MIDDLE-CORINTHIAN). FROM THE TROAD{1}, ATTRIBUTED TO SIGAEUM.
UNATTRIBUTED. 600-575 (?) (JEFFERY).
CAVI Subject: NOT MENTIONED.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE BOTTOM, IN A COMPLETE CIRCLE, GR.: τενδι σοι Θοδεμος διδοσι :*.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "DISCOVERED BY MR. FRANK CALVERT IN THE TROAD," BM REGISTRY.
CAVI Comments: THE INSCRIPTION IS PROBABLY IN THE ATTIC ALPHABET. CROSSED THETA; UNUSUAL
SIGMA. HENCE A POSSIBLE MEMORIAL OF THE ATTIC COLONY; THE POT POORLY PRESERVED,
BUT PROBABLY 1/4 6; THE INSCRIPTION NOT LATER THAN 550 (JEFFERY]. IRREGULAR
SPACING: THE FIRST HALF CLOSE TOGETHER, THEN MORE WIDELY SPACED, BUT AGAIN CLOSE
AT THE VERY END; THE PUNCTUATION MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE LINE AND HAS NO
LETTER SPACE OF ITS OWN. [PROBABLY A GIFT INSCRIPTION RATHER THAN A DEDICATION.
THE ANONYMITY OF THE RECIPIENT IS ODD.]
CAVI Number: 4222A
AVI Bibliography: RöHL (1882), .... 2. — RöHL (1907), 72/16. — SEG 30 (1980), NO. 1038. —
JOHNSTON (1990), 366 AND N. 3, 373/75, 416, 478, PL. 72 (BOTTOM WITH
INSCRIPTION). — THREATTE (1996), 412.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
