Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P22824
Publication Record: The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 30, 277, FIG.40, PL.100.1038
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of pyxis lid. From Athens, Agora H-K 12-14. Unattributed. Third quarter
fifth. After 450. Fourth (Moore).
CAVI Subject: Eros(? head and tip of wing).
CAVI Inscriptions: On the underside, Gr. scratched through the glaze into the soft clay before
firing: Α{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} my reading; card says: delta or alpha? Moore however says: "deeply
incised before glazing"; she also reads an alpha.
CAVI Comments: A `matching marker'; the pyxis would have had the same letter. Cf. Agora P
5711.
CAVI Number: 0608
AVI Bibliography: Museum card. — Moore (1997), 277/1038, fig. 40 (dr. of Gr.), pl. 100. —
Schreiber (1999), 235, fig. 27,25 (enlarged ph. of underside, showing what is
clearly a Gr. pointed alpha; it seems to be incised into the soft clay before
glazing (cf. Moore).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
