Publication Record: Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 140, FIG.133 (PARTS OF BD) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 254.6 Oakley, J., The Greek Vase, Art of the Story Teller (London, 2013): 21, FIG.11A (COLOUR OF PART)
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. Athena Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Achilles and Ajax playing a board game, with Athena.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: to Athena's right: οσδ^οσ(δ)σ{1}. To Athena's left: σδεπ(δ)οπσ{2}.
To right of the left hero: οσεδο^σε. To left of the right hero: οσεδο^σε{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Athena's hand intervenes; the sixth letter could also be a triangula rho.
{2} slightly differently in Walters' dr.: hσ at end (I did not see the final
sigma); the fifth letter perhaps a triangular rho. {3} lances intervene. {4} a
lance intervenes.
CAVI Comments: The exact repetition of a nonsense `word' is unusual.
CAVI Number: 4339
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Welcker (1851), pl. 1. — H.B. Walters in BM Cat. B (1893), 254; p.
27, fig. 35 (dr.) (bibl.). — Haspels (1936), [[254/]] Athena Painter no. 6.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
